Select at least three news articles that discuss the economic concept that you chose as a topic for
your term paper.
At least one news article should be dated within the previous two months.
Please note that the goal of this assignment is to read, understand, and discuss recent news
using microeconomic terminology. The articles should be from an on-line newspaper or
magazine. Materials posted on educational websites, like
www.thebalance.com, www.khanacademy.org , and so on, are not considered news articles
even if they were recently updated and contain material related to the term paper topic.
The Term paper should have the following structure:
1. Abstract (0.5 of a page) – the short description of the concepts, problems, questions
discussed in the Term paper.
2. Introduction (0.5 of a page) (optional)
3. Literature Review (about 2 pages) – please compare and contrast the opinions of the
authors of the articles, present the important information, data, statistics to support your
conclusions. It is important that the Literature review is written in your own words with
small quotes from the article. All quotes must have references in accordance with the
7
th Edition APA Style.
4. Discussion (about 2 pages) – Your task for this part of the Term paper is to analyze the
issue described in the articles using the economic concepts and theory learned in this
class. Refer to the course content materials and use specific economic vocabulary within
your term paper. The articles you choose may not use these exact terms; therefore, it is
incumbent upon you to convert the article language into economic language as is
appropriate. Include at least one graph developed in our course.
5. Conclusion (0.5 of a page)
The Term paper should be the title page and sub headings that correspond to
the structure described above.
