Policy White Paper
Description
Write a policy white paper on a crisis or a crisis response (broadly defined) or design an intervention/evaluation.
Assignment guidelines will be on the course Moodle or Teams site. Required to pass the course. (20 hours)
Integrative assignment
The prompt is: “Write a policy white paper on a crisis or a crisis response (broadly defined) or design an intervention/evaluation.”
Expertise and Intellectual Assistance along the way
Minimum of five (5) sources which will help you understand the moral, ethical, symbolic, social, political-economic, and/or historical conditions, dynamics, and implications that animate your crisis, crisis response, intervention, or evaluation.
These sources should include at least 3 scholarly sources (as compared with journalistic/documentary/advocacy/governmental) sources.
You should also rely on, whether in support or in opposition, material we have read and/or discussed in class as you develop your empirical and analytical positions.
All students should submit an idea statement sometime which includes topic detail as well as some reflection on how the paper will go about researching and/or designing in a manner that does justice to course themes, assumptions, and arguments.
Finally, white papers, evaluations, or designs should all include a list of precepts or guidelines that underpin the propositions in your texts.
Technical details
· 8-15 pages, double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt font, 1” margins, page numbers in top right (in Times New Roman), with separate title page with an executive summary/abstract, followed by the list of precepts.
· Explicit citation format, noted on title page
