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Sharing is Caring

Capitalization  Do Not Capitalize  Do Capitalize  Civil Rights movement  Congress  Environmental Justice  Congressional movement  House  Consultant  Senate  Country  NY State Health Department

Spellchecker isn’t perfect  Number of pubic figures  Command an control  Companies may not have bee advocating  Professional foresters were trained in silyiculture.

Acronyms  Spell out first, use acronym subsequently  The Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC)  Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA),  Rest of paper– CCC or SDWA  Politicians (party-2 letter acronym, all caps)  Al Gore (D-TN)  Henry Waxman (D-CA)

Introduction  Description of Client, what is the big environmental goals, and policy positions/preferences  Description of opposing interest(s) and their policy preferences  Quality of research, quotes, mission statement about preferences  Sense of scope of challenge

Understanding/Application of Downs' Theory  Where it is on issue attention cycle?  How salient is the issue to the public? What is the high and low estimate for how important the issue is to the public?  Application of Downs' Cycle Theory/Implication of salience  Quality/creativity of research- polls, newspaper, etc

Application of Kingdon Model  Problem stream -use of indicators/focusing groups to show magnitude of issue  Policy Stream - identification of alternatives, analysis of political and technical feasibility  Political stream- how open is the political window, implication for which policies can or can't go  Reasonable analysis of best/worse case what could reasonably be expected to pass  Quality and creativity of research

Stone Issue Framing  Empirical- “demonstrate the mechanism by which one set of people brings about harms to another set”  Moral- “they blame one set of people for causing the suffering of others”  Analysis of use of symbols and numbers  Analytical approach- how to use Stone's ideas to frame- villain/negligence/stupidity  Opposing side -

 3 Strengths of paper  3 things they could do to improve the paper