Join a community of learners gathered to develop and sharpen their communication, creativity, and critical thinking abilities. This collaborative environment helps you develop the skills necessary for crafting impactful policy papers or briefs. In this course, you’ll discover, develop, and practice new skills within a policy-writing framework. We encourage you to bring real-world challenges and initiatives into your course experience.

Performance Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Identify a problem or issue.
• Identify an appropriate policy solution.
• Identify and describe policy options.
• Assess policy options and consider frameworks for prioritizing them.
• Form logical and effective formal arguments and narratives.
• Organize the writing process for policy documents — papers or briefing books.
• Convey information in plain language.
• Write each section of a policy document well.

Intended Audience: All audiences.