A. Analyse a range of current economic issues and problems.
B. Develop and communicate economic arguments in a variety of forms.
C. Be able to make effective presentations of economic arguments.
D The nature of this assignment is such that students will analyse a particular newspaper article and, depending on the subject matter, will respond to one or more of the remaining outcomes.
- Introduction - Outline your reasons for selecting the article and summarise the key economic points covered by the article.
- Body - Identify and discuss the economics concepts and models from the Economics 1 module that are suitable to explain the news article and relate and apply these economics concepts and models to the article to show your understanding of the news. Despite being an essay, diagrams are permitted to help explain concepts
- Conclusion - Argue the social and economic implications of the economic event or other logical consequences of the news event.
- Referencing - All sources referred to in your essay, including any diagrams, must be referenced to in-text and be included in a full reference list at the end of the assignment, according to the APA system of referencing.