The module will help you to be a better advocate for language technology in your sphere of influence.
1. You will uUnderstand the principles of advocacy.
2. You will identify an advocacy objective for your work.
3. You will plan advocacy activities to achieve an objective.
1. Read Chapter 30 Principles of Advocacy from the Community Tool Box on the internet. Read all seven sections.
2. Write a brief summary of what you learned from this chapter. Share your summary with your mentor.
3. Watch the presentation Advocacy Principles and Practice.
4. For the advocacy outcome that you wrote down earlier, work through the first seven steps of the advocacy process in outline form and discuss them with your mentor.
Answer the following six questions and review your answers with your mentor.
1. What is advocacy?
2. What is the difference between advocacy and campaigning?
3. Name the ten steps of the advocacy process.
4. Name a method to use for analyzing the problem
5. What is SWOT?
6. Why is advocacy important?