The Paper Assignment revisited:

What am I looking for?

In General

General Readability - The topic sentence test (30 points)

Sentence and paragraph structure (10 points)

Use of outside sources (10 points)

small careless errors (10 points)

Part 1 - introduction

set up paragraph (10 points)

Background paragraphs (10 points)

narrowing to topic/question paragraphs (10 points)

transition to the next section paragraph (10 points)

Part 2 - theory

the general relationship - "microeconomic theory suggests" (10 points)

the use of graphs or math in combination with the story (10 points)

suggestive evidence - surely others have applied this theory elsewhere (10 points)

transition to the next section paragraph (10 points)

Part 3 - conclusion/policy recommendation

Anecdotal evidence from other countries (10 points)

Anecdotal evidence from within your country (10 points)

2 policy recommendations based on the "evidence" (10 points)

clean restatement and wrap-up (10 points)