<div dir="ltr">Good job Farell. I am sure people will find this helpful. My first point would be most people will not read long comments. A few staffers have no choice but to read them and summarize them. Our goal should be to be succinct.  This usually takes more effort but it should help us to be clear and less subject to misinterpretation.  We should also avoid emotional statements (in general).<div><br></div><div>My next question would be, how do we evaluate the effectiveness of a public comment? How often are our concerns taken into account in final decision making? In drafting comments we need to understand the policy context and mindset of the eventual decision makers.<br><div><br></div><div>best</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Farell FOLLY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farell@benin2point0.org" target="_blank">farell@benin2point0.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div>Dear All,</div><div><br></div><div>Following The NCUC Policy and Public Comment Writing Course I participated in in San Juan, I committed to suggest a few guidelines to guide people who will volunteer to draft public comments in the future. It can also helps us within the PC to quickly assess a document by using a common framework. Most of the contents derived from the course which was very appreciated by all the participants.</div><div><br></div><div>Please see the document <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1-Kuw_nS6uul7f3P-z6C3EopU8s3QP_BZhS0PRnm0o/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>   </div><div><ol><li>The first page briefly outlines the key point to focus on while drafting a comment : Feel free to comment or make any suggestion that can help improve it.</li><li>The second page is intended to help the new drafter start writing a comment by answering the questions directly : feel free to add more questions or modify the existing ones.</li></ol></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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