Synthesis Essay

My blog is about economics, which is related to my future field. Before I doing the blog project, I just have a few knowledge of economy even I am in the economics major. I thought economy is all about the money. However, it is not only the studies of monetary, but also studies the people’s behavior to the market, the government’s policy, bank’s operation mode, allocation of resources, etc. The blog project helps me to better know the economic in many different aspects, such as interview, Internet, books, articles, debate, and news.

Even though the process is suffering, the result is valuable. I learned many things from this project based on the knowledge of economic. Firstly I learned some knowledge of economic. I started the research with some questions. Such like what kind of jobs related to economic; what is the work condition for an economist; why the major economics belongs to social science but not business. In the very beginning, the answers I found are very cryptic because I was lack of knowledge of the economics at that time. My knowledge was built little by little every week. Personally, I think blogging is a good way to develop myself from reading, analyzing, and writing something about economics. Not only from reading some academic article by economist, but also watching video about what is economy, analyzing diagram of circulation of money in the market, or interviewing the economist.

I post the blogs in many different forms, not only the texts, but also some images, diagrams, a song, and a video. I thought using different forms of blog could make me feel interesting and maybe can attract the audience who read my blog. For an example, I post a picture of cartoon shows the relationship between the banker, the citizen, and the government. I talked about the information that reflected from the picture the banks are like the finical intermediations that borrow money from citizen and lend money to firms. Based on the cartoon, I also did research to find a history fact, which is the Great Depression in 1992 that can relate to the cartoon. I combined these two ideas together to give myself a better and deep thought. 

Besides the knowledge I learned in the economic field, I also learned some strategies of writing and reading literacy. Reading the article written by the economic professor can help me to improve using the academic language in the economic field. I can learn some academic vocabularies from their articles. However, I should continue to develop the mystery of the economic world after finish this project.