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Writing Economics Robert Neugeboren with Mireille Jacobson @2001 The President and Fellows of Harvard University (minor revisions in Jan. 2005) Acknowledgments This guide was proposed and supported by The Harvard Writing Project. Nancy Sommers, Sosland Director of Expository Writing, and Kerry Walk, Assistant Director of the Writing Project, read drafts, gave advice, and saw the project through from inception to completion. Kerry Walk wrote the section on Formatting and Documentation (chapter 5). Christopher Foote, Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, wrote part of chapter 3 and commented on drafts of the whole work. Oliver Hart, Michael Murray, Lorenzo Isla, Tuan Min Li, Allison Morantz, and Stephen Weinberg also gave very helpful comments. Special thanks to Mireille Jacobson, who compiled the appendices, added examples, and revised and proofread the text. Thanks also to Anita Mortimer and the Economics Tutorial Office. Contents 1 Introduction | The Economic Approach 1 Economics and the Problem of Scarcity 2 The Assumption of Rationality 3 The Theory of Incentives 3 Writing Assignments in Economics 970 4 Plan of This Guide 5 One | Writing Economically 5 Getting Started 6 The Keys to Good Economics Writing 7 An Example from the Literature 8 Achieving Clarity 10 Managing Your Time 11 Two | The Language of Economic Analysis 11 Economic Models 12 Hypothesis Testing 13 Regression: An Example 14 Improving the Fit 14 Applying the Tools 16 Three | Finding and Researching Your Topic 16 Finding a Topic for a Term Paper 18 Finding and Using Sources 19 Doing a Periodical Search 19 Taking and Organizing Notes 21 Four | The Term Paper 21 Outlining Your Paper 22 Writing Your Literature Review 23 Presenting Your Hypothesis 24 Presenting Your Results / by Chris Foote 29 Discussing Your Results 30 Five | Formatting and Documentation / by Kerry Walk 30 Placing Citations in Your Paper 32 Listing Your References 34 Sample References Entries 44 Appendix A | Fields in Economics 47 Appendix B | Standard Statistical Sources 49 Appendix C | Electronic Indices to Periodical Literature
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