Teaching writing in economics

The Self-Rated Writing Skills of Business Majors: Graduating Perceptions and Collegiate Improvement

“…There is little research on economics students' perceptions of their own writing, although there is a great deal on the types of writing assignments that economics professors can and do give their students. Schmeiser (2017), for example, discusses how to integrate writing into economics courses, providing numerous strategies for teachers such as policy briefs, peer review, blogs, process writing, and brainstorming. These suggestions largely replicate similar techniques used in the typical English course.…”

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Assignment in Macroeconomics

“…Phillips' (2016) findings show higher benefits in outbound feedback when students actively give feedback through peer review compared to passively receiving it. Furthermore, Schmeiser (2017) argues that during the outbound process when students provide a review to their peers, they are exposed to new ideas and approaches, as well as sharing similar struggles with peers. A longer list detailed by Cho and Cho (2011) provides the benefits of peer review which could be easily implemented in the several stages of this scaffolded assignment.…”

“…For example, some studies advocate the use of short writing assignments, such as one-minute papers (Chizmar & Ostrosky, 1998), 5-10 minute in-class papers (Crowe & Youga, 1986), short papers with a diverse audience (Simpson & Carroll, 1999), reflective papers of 150-300 words (Olmsted & Ruediger, 2013), and weekly writings (Dynan & Cate, 2005. Others advocate for longer, various, and scaffolded papers (Caviglia-Harris, 2020;Cohen & Williams, 2019;Schmeiser, 2017).…”