Overview
JUST FINISH TEH PAPER DONT MAKE A NEW ONE. This paper is to be done on a specific policy or planning issue for your priority population and this issue should be identified as early as possible. It should be an issue that interests you (given your priority population), which is current, and which has upcoming choices that can or should be made. You are to write the paper from the point of view of an informed consultant for a stakeholder for whom the issue is relevant. For example, if the issue was public housing, you could write to a developer, the local planning department, the local housing authority, or a non- profit or advocacy organization representing the interests of public housing residents. This paper is used to help you apply what is studied in class to the kind of professional and action-oriented writing that is done in the policy and planning fields.
This action-oriented paper is to provide a specific recommendation that you come to see as important and worth doing on the issue you have identified. The paper is to provide a brief summary of the problem on which the issue is focused and the context within which that problem is set; a review of the pros and cons of the major alternative choices that are feasible; and some of the necessary implementing steps that would be needed to achieve the recommendation’s accomplishment. The average paper length is 8-10 pages, single-spaced (not including appendices). The Tradecraft of Writing provides the template for how you will write your policy memo