Paper Guidelines per the professor: This assignment is designed for you to get a

Paper Guidelines per the professor:
This assignment is designed for you to get an in depth look at the policy analysis process. You are expected to produce a well-written, concise paper on the subject.The paper should be 8-10 pages in length double spaced with proper citations.Your paper should address the following areas:
1. Introduce your topic. This includes identifying the problem and defining any key terms.
2. Establish the criteria with which you will evaluate the existing policy and policy alternatives. For example, cost, legality, efficiency and political acceptability represent possible evaluative criteria.
3. Summarize the existing literature that addresses your policy issue, including online and print publications.
4. Analyze the existing policy according to the evaluative criteria you have established. This analysis should also include the effects the policy has on different groups and any conflicts it creates among important values.
5. Identify alternatives to your policy and evaluate each one individually, according to your established criteria. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each option. Keep in mind that you can combine alternative options into new ideas.
6. Conclude by recommending any changes in or alternatives to the existing policy, and briefly reiterate your rationale. Outline a plan for adopting an alternative, if applicable, and discuss the possible consequences of adopting your recommended changes.The paper should have at least ten sources. At least eight of these must be from scholarly journals. The others can come from “other sources.” Scholarly journals do not include magazines such as Newsweek or Time. Please do not use Wikipedia for any of your sources.