Advocacy Project

  Order Description     1. Provide a bibliography with 10-12 new sources that combine a variety of scholarly and popular material (at least half of these NEW sources should be scholarly sources). ANNOTATE FIVE SCHOLARLY SOURCES (review sample annotations under Files again if needed). In order to decide whether or not a given source is going to benefit your project, try to determine its place. Use the following checklist to ensure that you have a variety of sources. You should have sources that help you answer all of these questions. Can also consult AGWR, 274-76 to help you articulate what is the type of argument the work engages. Do your sources help establish a trend in the advocacy approaches? (Remember the "trend" of recent decades from Alexander's Ch6: litigation. But also the "trend" in focusing on education and affirmative action rather than mass incarceration.) Does the source help establish WHO are the advocates involved and what is the purpose of the advocacy? Does the source help establish WHO has a stake in blocking efforts to solve or mitigate the problem? --Does the source show how the advocacy has been helped or hurt by public opinion? Or does it describe any common perception about the issue that determines the advocacy approach (remember the "politics of respectability" in Alexander's Ch6) --Does the source show how policy or law or other reform measures have failed? --Does the source help define the root causes of failed advocacy? --Does the source help establish HOW advocates have been successful in resolving or mitigating the problem? --Does the source help establish an evaluation of cost to benefit? --Does the source help establish the feasibility of your proposed solutions? (does it establish precedent? Show current action? Efforts at implementation?) --Does the source offer a solution to the problem similar to the one you envision? (if so, has their been any action after the work was published? If so, what? If not, why do you suppose that is?) --Does the source function as opposition to your proposed solution? Does it show, in other words, what might be problematic about your argument? (you will want real voices with real arguments here).