The writing assignment is due by Thursday the 20th of January 2011 at 2 pm. Please write a minimum of 500 words and a maximum of a 1000 words on ONE of the following subjects:
1. You're the new columnist of the New York Times economic pages. You have posters of Paul Krugman and David Leonhardt above your bed, and you're a vegetarian the whole year, except during the summer. Janet L. Robinson, your big boss, asks you to write a piece on the economic consequences of the midterm elections for America.
2. You're a member of staff of Hilda Solis, President Obama's Secretary of Labor. Fox News has given your boss 5 uninterupted minutes on "The O'Reilly Factor" to defend the administration's undertakings to save and boost American jobs. Write her speech.
3. You're a junior analist at The Heritage Foundation. You want to write a note for your think-tank's website on extending the Bush tax cuts while keeping the budget deficit under control. Don't forget that your job is to promote "the principles of free entreprise, limited government, traditional American values and a strong national defence" AND to advance relatively concrete policy proposals in order to achieve just that.
You can send me your papers by email or hand them to me during class. Please try to put yourself as much as possible in the situations described above. The paper will account for 25% of the final mark. Don't forget to mention the sources you used at the very end of your article. Good luck!
1. You're the new columnist of the New York Times economic pages. You have posters of Paul Krugman and David Leonhardt above your bed, and you're a vegetarian the whole year, except during the summer. Janet L. Robinson, your big boss, asks you to write a piece on the economic consequences of the midterm elections for America.
2. You're a member of staff of Hilda Solis, President Obama's Secretary of Labor. Fox News has given your boss 5 uninterupted minutes on "The O'Reilly Factor" to defend the administration's undertakings to save and boost American jobs. Write her speech.
3. You're a junior analist at The Heritage Foundation. You want to write a note for your think-tank's website on extending the Bush tax cuts while keeping the budget deficit under control. Don't forget that your job is to promote "the principles of free entreprise, limited government, traditional American values and a strong national defence" AND to advance relatively concrete policy proposals in order to achieve just that.
You can send me your papers by email or hand them to me during class. Please try to put yourself as much as possible in the situations described above. The paper will account for 25% of the final mark. Don't forget to mention the sources you used at the very end of your article. Good luck!
It's a shame we can't write the talking points section of the O'Reilly Factor itself :-)
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