Reflect on Responses you provided for Activity #1 – Review the list of several ‘wrongs’ that had concerned you. Comment on these listed ‘wrongs’. Finally, select ONE ‘wrong’ on which you will focus. Submit under the heading “Notes.”
2. Get a Problem onto the Public Agenda – Read Chapter 3 (Definition: Framing the Problem) of Writing Public Policy (Smith).
As a thinking exercise, do Task #1 on pages 39-40. Add the results to your growing notes on your chosen problem. Note your purpose in this activity is advocacy. Add the purpose to your notes. Submit your notes from the Task #1 under the above heading “Notes.”
According to your purpose, write a preliminary problem description that meets minimum expectations for that purpose listed on pages 39-42, i.e. Tasks #1-4. Do not omit an expectation if you do not yet know how to answer. Include such, state your best guess, and state what you will look for/find out. Submit your 750-word description under the heading “Problem Description.”
Please use the book:
Smith, Catherine. 2015. Writing Public Policy: A practical Guide to Communication in the Policy
Making Process, 4
th edition. New York: Oxford University Press.