Policy brief

Description

Students will demonstrate policy analysis skills and gain experience writing a policy brief. The audience for this policy brief will be policymakers, federal or state Senators, or Representatives. Students will be arguing for or against a current policy related to youth and/or children in New York State. Students should aim to convince a policymaker to buy into, keep, change, or get rid of a bill being considered for continued funding/reauthorization. Students will briefly describe and critically analyze a social policy targeted to children and youth; including a brief explanation of the issue, relevant literature and references, core elements, and findings underlying the concerns, programs, and recommendations designed to address it. The policy brief draft should include an executive summary, research background/context, policy alternatives, and policy recommendations. Students will be allowed to revise or resubmit the policy brief draft assignment. I already started my policy brief, I just need it to get fixed, according to the feedback my professor gave me. Also, you will need to add more pages. I attached my draft below and my professor’s feedback. I’m going to copy and paste my professor’s feedback below you will have to follow what it says in the feedback and also when finish with the paper I would like a summary because I also have to do a presentation about this paper. Also, I’m going to attach an example of a policy brief that my professor send me just in case it’s helpful I will also attach the rubric. professor feedback Your draft has a decent start with insight developing around the raise the age topic. Your recommendations outlined at the end of your paper are a good specific start but also very similar to those raised in the Roman article you referenced throughout your paper. Are there any additional suggestions you may have? Your background information and definitions are helpful in your draft. One thing that seems to be missing is policy alternatives. What is the opposition saying about this topic? Specifically, raising the age to 21? Be mindful of cohesively incorporating your quotes into your paper. I also think it would be helpful to mention your policy recommendation in the Executive Summary (beginning) of your paper. It will really pull people in. Lastly, do more research, one reference is not enough.  Be mindful of some major grammar errors: run-on sentences; misuse of punctuation; missing in-text citation for quotes and paraphrasing as it looks like plagiarism; not using enough sources in your paper; lowercase letters at the start of a new sentence; quotation marks misuse; sentence composition/structure makes the content hard to digest and understand; and adding comments there were in parentheses directly into the sentences, just do away with the parentheses.