Topic 2:  Developing resources of the Arctic.
Here's a bit of guidance for your drafts.

1. Ask: What are my client's powers and responsibilities?  A very brief introduction might relate this information, to establish with the client the depth of your own knowledge.  But don't dwell upon information which the client already knows.
2. Then ask: how might efforts to develop resources of the arctic affect the client?  What are his/her/its stakes in the actual or potential issues of the arctic? Which issues relating to
the arctic is the client most interested in.  Which should he or she be most interested in?
3. Select 3-4 issues -- certainly no more than that -- which you feel will or should have most importance to the client.  Note that
part of your "advice" might be to reframe the way the client thinks about the arctic.  For instance, the client may be ignoring some issue of
major impact.  So one does not need to accept the clients's past concerns as the sole  indicator of future concerns.
4. For each of these 3-4 issues, what are other parties doing which will impact the client?
5. Considering the answers to items 1-4, what should the client do, alone and in  cooperation with others?
Note that we expect an advice-giver such as yourself to establish both the desirability and the feasibility of each recommendation.
That's it!  Once you've completed 1-5 you're done.

You may find it efficient to develop a set of options, then prioritize them for the client.  Or, if you believe that there are major uncertainties about the
issues which most affect your client, you might develop a couple of scenarios, or alternative situations, offering advice responsive to each.
Keep the structure of your report simple, announce it clearly in an introduction and (generally) with sub-headings, and write simple declarative sentences.  You're
writing to inform and to persuade, not to entertain.  

Solid research is vital.  This assignment differs from the first because it invites you to be creative with recommendations.  Try to offer recommendations which are directly responsive to the client's problems (and opportunities).  You will have the opportunity to sharpen your recommendations when you revise the draft.

Mr. Miskell and I will evaluate your drafts and place them by noon Friday in a convenient location (to be announced in class on Wednesday) .