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• Make a decision to become an advocate for solutions to your central problem in at least one of the following three ways:
• 1) you might advocate one or more specific solutions to the significant and current political/social/cultural problem that sits at the center of your focus
• 2) you might locate the next steps to potentially solving your project’s central problem
• 3) you might argue for why the current solutions do not work and leave your readers with questions about possible next steps.
• In other words, your arguments for advocating solutions in combination with the analytical reasons you provide for why you have chosen to focus on particular solutions
• Advocate who uses academic research and methods to deliver persuasive arguments convincingly to a public of one’s peers.
• expected to consider and present positions that run against theirs in various ways – call them counter arguments – in order to meet the expectations of their academic audience.
• established arguments and knowledge in areas of discourse and recognize the legitimacy of other perspectives,
• In the realm of public advocacy, arguments and persuasion can look, feel, and sound quite different. Public advocates deliver strong and impassioned arguments by undermining counter arguments.
• They do not simply put forward solutions without first comprehending the informed debates in which these solutions are situated.