POLICY RECOMMENDATIONOUTLINE AND BULLETED PAPER INSTRUCTIONS
Overview:
Describe a contemporary public health or health care issue where statutory or regulatory change is needed to bring about sustainable improvement or resolution of the problem.
This paper builds on your earlier policy issues paper assignment and discussion boards, and follows through with recommendations for change.Through this paper, you will gain experience in taking an issue well beyond identification to making recommendations for sustainable solutions.
You will analyze populations that are affected before and after the change, and consider the degree of positive and negative disruption that your recommendations will cause, the barriers to implementation, and potential unintended consequences, both positive and negative.
Occasionally, youmay be asked by the instructor to write on a different issue than your Bulleted Policy Issue Paper. This occurs only if the issue or subpopulation you chose did not meet the criteria outlined in the assignment instructions.
Paper Description:
This paper will be written in 2phases. The Policy Recommendation Outline is the traditional roman numeral outline with in-text citations for the final paper, while the Bulleted Policy Recommendation Paper is the final bulleted paper.As in the Policy Issue Paper in Module, this paper is short (1000-1200 words) and mustbe written in bullets.
You may use a few additional sentences when necessary to expand upon or explain the primary bullet, but the paper mustbe made up of bullets, not paragraphs.Think short and be concise.Present your argument, justify it with 2-4sub-bullets and a small amount of additional material where necessary, and then move on to your next point.Use Times New Roman 12 pt font with 1" margins, and doublespace between primary bullets.
Your audience for this Policy Recommendation Paper is a policy maker or legislator who is even busierthan before!Limit the paper to a 3-4-page summary of the issue.This is not a paper to be published in a journal; it is a paper that will lead to policy change in its final form.
The key to writing this succinct paper is clarity of thought and a clear flow of argument.You should be able to look at only your primary bullet sentences and understand the argument from there.
If you cannot, then you need to go back and work on your outline.Any additional time spent on sub-bullets and additional information will be wasted, as you will have to go back and change it once you get the outline correct. See the document "How to Write a Bulleted Paper" and the sample papers in the Assignment Instructionsfolder.
Module Assignment:
Write a traditional roman numeral outline for this paper, along with sub-headings for the main points of your argument.
The outline musthave the following sections: Background, Issues, Recommendations, Potential Unintended Consequences, and Ease of Implementation.Each section should be developed in outline form except for the last two sections. The last two sections do not have to be fully developed in the outline, but must be fully developed in the final paper.
There is no word limit for the outline, but it mustsupport the 1000-1200 word final paper. The outline and final paper mustinclude scriptural support for reasons the problem exists, where applicable, and how improved application of scriptural principles will enhance the desired outcome.
Module Assignment:
Write the final bulleted paper with all 5 sections fully developed as described above. Do not incorporate in-text citations from the outline assignment.
You must incorporate any feedback provided by the instructor.The Potential Unintended Consequences section is to examine untended consequences of implementing your recommended changes, not the consequences of the current state of affairs or of doing nothing.
The Ease of Implementation needs to address how hard or easy it will be to make the changes.Often while writing these two sections, you will identify modifications that you will want to make of your original recommendations to make them more sound.
References:
On an additional page, and not to be counted in the word count, provide at least 5 references in current AMA format. The assigned readings or the Scripture DO NOT COUNT toward these 5 references.