} Spring 2014 Mid-Term
Exam Guide and Test Review
◦ Date: Wednesday, March
5, 2014
◦ Time: The test will
posted on eLearning at 11:59 pm
◦ Place: Online - Take
Home Essay Exam
◦
Exam return: Please return the completed mid term exam to your instructor via the eLearning System before the end of the day on Wednesday, March 19, 2013 by 11:59 pm
} It
is important that you read chapters 1 - 7 in your
textbook
There will be one essay question from each
one of the first 7 chapters in
your textbook. You will need to answer 5 of the 7 essay questions
} Essay questions
◦
When reading the chapters 1 through 7 be looking for broad themes in local economic
development that would lend
themselves to essay questions
– Such as:
– Do you think that global
warming will shape the future of economic
development at the local level in the United
States? (Pages 24-25)
– What are some of the
current fads in local economic development?
(Page 92-94)
–
How do you go about understanding a local economy’s strengths and weaknesses (Pages 143-155)
1. If you were the mayor of your home town
would expend most of your efforts
in attracting new businesses or in
retaining and expanding existing businesses
in your community to strengthen the city’s
economic base?
The style of the questions will be very
similar to the journal questions
that you have getting in the first
seven weeks of this Spring 2014 semester
The each answer on the midterm essay exam
must be 300 to 500 words in length
You
can use only this book for your citations
Planning
Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice by Edward J. Blakely and Nancey
Green Leigh, 4th and 5th Editions are acceptable
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