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Please remember that your reader is not going tc have too much time on hand. So ‘bold’ the
important points.
It could look as follows:

Water Conservation Strategies
Progress Review
Aims
• Increasing ground water level
• Storing monsoon water
Plans as stated in report
• Awareness raising
• Central government funding
Limitations
• Appears expensive
• Lacks popular support
Recommendations and suggestions
• NGO participation necessary

Just like a report, a review, too, should identify the problem, its causes, the relative importance
of each and the possible solutions along with your opinions and recommendations.

Preparing policy statements

A policy statement is also a kind of a report. So it too should begin with an overview of the
past achievements, facts, data.
Next should follow the need for the new policy. A thorough, well-documented and
research-backed data, supported by needs analysis, should supplement and strengthen the
theme statement.
Mention the policy change and its aim succinctly. Discuss its advantages and indicate
possible difficulties and ways to overcome them.

10. A teacher has to be careful in showing his or her supportive intention, because such
intentions can implicitly convey negative evaluation of the pupil’s impose on his or her
autonomy. At times supportive communication can be threatening. Asking questions can
challenge privacy, offering advice may undermine autonomy’s marking suggestions can
imply criticism.
To offset this possibility, the pedagogue has to use certain devices. Face work or politeness
strategies are communicative devices for reimbursing the face threats inherent in supportive
management. Positive face work aims to protect derive to be evaluated positively; it includes
verbal and behavioural devices that express positive regard for the pupil, admiration for the

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