Your Final Product
So what will your final product look like? Here is a very rough sketch of a typical
written policy-analyric report: In a coherent narrative style you will describe some
problem that needs to be mitigated or solved. You will lay out a few alternative
courses of action that might be taken. To each course of action you will attach
a set of projected outcomes that you think your client or audience would care
about, suggesting the evidentiary grounds for your projections. If no alternative
dominates all other alternatives with respect to all the evaluative criteria of interest,
you will indicate the nature and magnitude of the trade-offs implicit in different
policy choices. Depending on the client's expectations, you might state your own
recommendation as to which alternative should be chosen.