ECO336 Public Economics

First Writing Assignment Revision

As mentioned, this assignment consists of two rounds. For the second round, I would like you to respond to the feedback given on your First Writing Assignment. The revision stage is worth up to 3 percent of your overall grade.

Objective:

The main purpose of this revision is to take advantage of the comments provided on your answers to the First Writing Assignment, handed in last week, so that you can improve your assignment in the ways suggested.

With that in mind, please read over the comments carefully and make sure you understand them. Then rewrite your answer to the same question, responding to those comments. In some cases, a substantial revision is required. And some students should seriously consider making use of additional writing resources available on campus. (See: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/asc/ or

http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/writing-centres/centres/.)

Your responsiveness to comments received on the first round will constitute part of the grade on the revision. In concrete terms, you will need to write a separate note saying briefly (but still in sentences) how you responded to each of the comments received when revising your essay.

Rules:

1. You have two weeks to complete this revision.

2. A hard copy of your revised assignment is due in at 12.10pm on Thursday November 17, 2011, one week after the term test. You must also hand in your original graded assignment. Note: without the original, your revision will not be graded. Please also note that I will collect the assignments in at 12.10pm. If you would like your assignment to be graded, then you should make it your business to ensure that your assignment has been handed in by then.

3. You will also need to write and submit the note (referred to above) saying briefly how you responded to the comments when revising your answers.

4. Turnitin: you must submit the final version of your document to Turnitin.com. (The same login information as before applies.)

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Robert McMillan

To CHECK (on November 17):

1. Did you hand a hard copy of your revision in by 12:10pm?

2. Did you also hand in your first-round essay in hard copy?

3. Did you also submit a note describing the changes you made (see above)?