Requirements for the Written Assignment (Short Paper) based on Planet Money Podcast

NPR Planet Money Podcast is available from http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ - podcasts are posted weekly on Tuesday and Friday. You are required to write a reflection paper based on any podcast you choose. The paper should be about 2 pages long (approximately 500 words). You are free to choose any of the podcasts posted under the planet money link for the paper as long as it reveals ideas from economics. The paper should be uploaded in the link provided.

reflection paper must:

Relate to content in that chosen podcast (please include the title of the podcast to which you are referring in the title/subject of your paper).

Describe and define an economic concept addressed in the podcast.

Add to the content of the podcast, specifically your reflection paper is not just a summary of what you heard.Your paper should either be:

Linking: Make a link: Make a further connection of the topic to something in your reading, or that we have discussed in class (this connection should be clarifying, specifying or building on what is already in the podcast.); or

Probing: Probe the question further: Ask a question about something mentioned/discussed in the podcast, and include at least an initial attempt at an answer to that question.The answer can be based on some research you do (simple online research, or more in depth - be sure to cite your sources), or on some economic thinking that you do on your own.

This assignment requires you to practice your economic thinking by applying economic concepts to current news, events and issues that you might not generally think of as "economic."You can include any additional comments you wish.

The introduction and the conclusion can be one paragraph each. In the introduction also include a one or two sentence description of what is the main body of the paper. Then discuss the topic in the main body of the paper in a number of paragraphs. The conclusion will summarize the main paper along with any other observations you may have about the topic. It may help to organize your writing if you use some sub-headings for the paragraphs. The papers should have at least three references one of which may be your prescribed text.You may use any style APA/MLA etc. you may be familiar with for references but do so consistently for all the references.That also applies to references from the internet. Wikipedia and a few other similar websites are a good and ready source of information in the internet and you may access them for researching any topic. However, please, do not use Wikipedia as a primary reference.You may find a number of primary references used by Wikipedia while it explains the concept and these primary references, if you can access them, may be cited.

Since this is a paper on an economic topic, you are welcome to use graphs charts etc. to supplement the discussion and highlight major issues.