BIZ-A2201 - Scientific thinking and writing, Economics, Lecture, 9.1.2023-23.4.2023

Topic outline

• Academic Writing in Economics
  After completing this module, the student

  Is familiar with central features of academic writing, with a specific focus on writing in Economics, including:
  

  - knowledge of the standard components of and structure of scientific papers in Economics.
  

  - familiarity with basic tools for critically reviewing summarizing and citing work in Economics - both empirical and theoretical.
  

  
  

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    Writing an Introduction File

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    This document presents a bullet point list of the "canonical introduction" of a theory paper in Economics, written by Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, and a generalized version of this list that can be applied to empirical papers, as well as theses in Economics.
    

    
    

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    Theory and theoretical work in economics File

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    This file is also posted under "Finding, reading and critically evaluating literature". It is a short slideshow about how to read and what to pay attention to when summarizing and evaluating theoretical work in Economics.
    

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    Reading and summarizing empirical work in economics File

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    This file is also posted under "Finding, reading and critically evaluating literature". It is a short slideshow about how to read and what to pay attention to when summarizing and evaluating empirical work in Economics.