Assignments for a Writing-Intensive Economics Course.

The article presents the results of a survey designed to assess the value of the types of assigned writing in the Davidson College's Writing-Intensive (WI) economics courses in North Carolina. The author contends that the WI courses evaluates the corporate finance, econometrics, economies of Latin America, environmental economics, industrial organization, labor economics, money and banking, and public sector economics. The author assessed the writing assignments in WI courses. The school administration decided to require WI courses in an effort to encourage students to become flexible, critical thinkers.