English 200 Monday, 5-4-15 through Friday, 5-8-15 Freakonomics, Chapter 2 Monday: Continue Working on Paper Tuesday: Library Wednesday through Friday: Chapter 2, Freakonomics, Discuss and begin working on Final Paper Counting Today: 19 School Days!!

English 200 Monday, 5-4-15 through Friday, 5-8-15 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Counting Today: 23 School Days!!

English 200 Monday, 5-4-15 through Friday, 5-8-15 What is Freakonomics? Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life The conventional wisdom is often wrong Dramatic effects often have distant, even subtle causes “Experts” use their informational advantage to serve their own agenda Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so

English 200 Monday, 5-4-15 through Friday, 5-8-15

English 200 Monday, 5-4-15 through Friday, 5-8-15 What is Freakonomics? Freakonomics begins in asking questions and then works to unravel the complexities of correlation and cause in order to develop an answer to these questions.

English 200 Monday, 5-4-15 through Friday, 5-8-15 Steps for Paper: Identify Driving Question Provide the Conventional Wisdom Answer (research) Reject the Conventional Wisdom… Ask “What if…” Explore Alternative Questions/Answers (Research) Draw Conclusions

English 200 Monday, 5-4-15 through Friday, 5-8-15 Library, Tuesday, 5-5-15 Identify Driving Question Provide the Conventional Wisdom Answer (research) Reject the Conventional Wisdom… Ask “What if…” Explore Alternative Questions/Answers (Research) Draw Conclusions