Any article about regional economy

1. To increase your familiarity with the journal literature, which is the basic record of the progress of any discipline. Every student should be very familiar with the journals in his or her field. 2. To make you read journal articals. The heart of a university education is learning to read specialized material that is too difficult for you when you start. 3. To make you summarize a discussion in the Regional Economics literature. You should imagine that you are working or someone who needs to know what has been written but does not have time to read it herself or himself. 4. To introduce you another journal 5. To make you write an ABSTRACT of an article 6. To make you practice handling references 7. To introduce you to another journal publishing regional articles. 8. To give you a chance to practice using the Social Science Citation index and to focus your attention on how research evolves. 9. to give you additional practice with the social Science Citations Index. 10. To introduce you to another journal.

1 Explain what problem the paper addresses and why it matters…5
2 Explain what methodology is used, and if appropriate, what data is used…10
3 Explain what the author’s main conclusions are…10
4 Using the Social Science Citation Index, find an article that cites the one you are reviewing. Discuss in your review what it says about the article…15
5 Give your own assessment of how significance, useful, readable, and well done the paper is…5
6 Write an ABSTRACT of your review…5
7 Provide a list of FOUR references including the ones you find in the Social Science Citations Index. They must be in the CJE format…15
8 Write an appropriately graceful acknowledgement…2
9 quality and clarity…13
10 Include a copy of a citations map generated by the Social Science Citations
Index program…20
total…100