Bitcoin
What is Bitcoin? Is Bitcoin money as defined by the functions of money, properties of money and definitions of money in macroeconomics? What are the advantages and disadvantages to using Bitcoin? Will Bitcoins affect the FED’s conduct of monetary policy? Why or why not? How do Bitcoins affect the US macroeconomy?
Research Paper and In-Class Presentation Guidelines Fall 2015
RESEARCH PAPERS
Research Papers should focus on the macroeconomic aspects of the issue!
The Research Paper is 15% of your course grade.
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WRITE MY ESSAYStudents will research one of the macroeconomic topics listed on the Research Paper Topics and Due Dates document posted on Blackboard.
Students select a Research Paper Topic by choosing their first choice, second choice and third choice from the list posted on Blackboard. Students send an email to me at swatkins@ccbcmd.edu with their first choice, second choice, and third choice. In your email include your full name: First Name and Last Name, class time (9:35am,11:10am, or 12:45pm), your first choice research topic and accompanying due date, your second choice research topic and accompanying due date, and your third choice research topic and the accompanying due date.
Students will be assigned to a topic in the order in which I receive them. Be the first student to request a topic and it is yours! Only one student per topic. When you send an email to me, if your first choice topic is available, you will be assigned to that topic and its accompanying due date. If your first choice topic was claimed previously by another student, you will be assigned to your second choice. If your second choice was claimed by another student, you will be assigned to your third choice.
Professor Watkins will periodically post an updated topic sign-up sheet on Blackboard showing who signed up for which topic. Please check the updated list BEFORE you email your topic request to me to make certain the topic has not already been claimed. If a research topic has been claimed by a fellow student, you must select another topic.
Students who have not signed up for a Research Topic by September 29, 2015 will be assigned to a topic and Presentation date by Professor Watkins.
After Professor Watkins confirms the student’s research topic selection, the student will write a five page (at least 1500 words) research paper on the topic.
Students are required to utilize appropriate reference sources (i.e., scholarly business periodicals) and to evaluate source documents based on their currency, reliability, and validity and to prepare an annotated bibliography. At least 50 pages of collateral reading of economic literature apart from the textbook is required as part of the research paper assignment.Students will document the 50 pages of additional reading in the Bibiography. Students will utilize government (e.g., bls.gov, bea.gov, federalreserve.gov, congressional research service, world bank, congressional budget office, office of management and budget, US Treasury reports, etc.) and business databases to the extent possible to conduct their research.
Students will include in their research and cite at least one article from The Economist and one article from the Wall Street Journal that relates to the topic. Do NOT use Wikipedia!
Include an AnnotatedBibliography with your paper. Be sure to include all necessary citations in the report and in the Bibliography, including one article from The Economist and one article from the Wall Street Journal.
Acceptable format for the Research Paper is an 8.5 x 11 page, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12-point font with one inch margins.
Research Papers will be evaluated and graded based on the Research Paper Grading Rubric posted on Blackboard. Included in this Grading Rubric are the following CCBC General Education Program outcomes:1. Written/Oral Communication; 2. Critical Analysis and Reasoning; 3.Technological Competence; 4. Information Literacy; and 5. Personal and Professional Ethics.
Research Papers are due on the date listed on the Research Paper Topics and Due Dates posted on Blackboard (or as designated by the Instructor). (See Research Paper Topics and Due Dates posted on Blackboard for a complete list.) Research Papers may be submitted as a hard copy in class on the due date or via email prior to class in Microsoft Word format.
Your grade on the Research Paper is based on the Research Paper Grading Rubric posted on Blackboard. Writing assistance is available from the CCBC Online Writing Lab (OWL) and campus Writing Centers.
IN-CLASS PRESENTATIONS
In-Class Presentations are 5% of your course grade.
Students will prepare and present a 5 minute Power Point Presentation to the class summarizing their Research Paper. Students will give their Power Point Presentation on the date designated by the Instructor and posted on Blackboard. (See Research Paper Topics and Due Dates posted on Blackboard.)
Copies of the Power Point Slides shall be submitted to Professor Watkins on the day of the Presentation either as a hard-copy or via email using Power Point format.
Following the 5 minute Power Point Presentation, students will present to the class three Discussion Questions and conduct a brief class discussion based on their Research Paper.
Your grade on the In-Class Presentation will be based on the In Class Presentation Grading Rubric posted on Blackboard.
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