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State Your Case

You must pull all the data together to form a picture of the situation and to set the stage for your proposed program. Make sure that the data support the program you are proposing. If you tell the reviewers, for instance, that 90 percent of prostitutes are drug abusers, then you should have a drug-abuse treatment or intervention program in your overall program.

Be coherent. This is where you lay a foundation for understanding why you selected the program you are now proposing. As with the foundation of a building, if you don't make a strong case here, everything you add later is in danger of collapse.

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