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Economic Research Methodology: Writing Tutors, Critical Thinking, and Empirical, Economic Research

This paper reports on a pilot study that involved introducing Writing Tutors into a compulsory, third year economics course with the intent of incorporating both writing across the curriculum and writing intensive elements. The course and the Writing Tutor system are both described and then comments from the tutors and the students in the course are presented. The study appears to be successful and some thoughts to consider when introducing this system elsewhere are given.