PEAR Assignment

The PEAR Assignment consists of two parts. The first part is the submission and editing of an assignment based on the text "Cocktail Party Economics." This part is worth approximately half of your mark. The second part is your review of five randomly assigned assignments submitted by your fellow students. This part is also worth approximately half your mark.This assignment has several steps that are detailed below.

STEP 1.

Thewriting assignmentshould have the following components:

1. It should be a well written letter to a friend or family member about what you are learning from readingCocktail Party Economics(CPE) using proper spelling, grammar, and paragraphs in the text's style. The use of slang, short forms, etc. should be as strategic as they are in the book. Feel free to write with a humorous voice, if that is your inclination;
2. It should be between 1100 and 1200words;
3. It must reference 3 concepts found in CPE.One concept must come from chapters 1-4, another from chapters 5-9 and the last from chapters 9-12;
4. It should describe how and why you have found these ideas to be:
5. interesting,
6. surprising, or
7. obvious;
8. You should apply these concepts to either:
9. example(s) from your life, or
10. an alternative interesting example not found in the book, but you think would interest the reader;
11. It should reference the page number with (pp XX) in text. For example, "Now I understand why unionized workers make so much" (pp 123).