Success and Failures of American Language Policy
What is the issue? What are the basic facts? What’s the background information that will help your reader understand it?
Explain and define key terms and concepts, and set the issue up for your reader as clearly and objectively as possible.
Make your own argument about it.
Drawing on the information you have researched and the range of arguments and evidence you have looked at, what is your own view about this issue? What, as you see it, are the key causes of the problem, and what are the solutions?
