I started my issues paper at first planning on talking about preserving African languages in general, but realized that was too broad (with Kelsey's suggestion too) so I decided to focus specifically on Zulu. It is a narrow topic but I still have a lot of things to say. I have just over 4 pages so far and still have other ideas for things to include in the paper so I don't think I'll have a problem reaching the page requirement. I have already included one major example of a language that died out, and I plan on adding one, maybe two more.
My target audience are average Americans who don't know a lot about this issue, so I can give a good amount of background information and things like that to make it clear. This is a difficult topic to relate to Americans because a lot of them haven't even heard of Zulu before. It will be hard to get them interested in this issue but I think through telling stories of other lost languages I may be able to make it interesting. I'm also going to mention several ideas of how we can preserve the Zulu language and hopefully I can find something that an average American can do to help. I still kind of worry about my paper being professional enough, that I'll be able to use enough sources and find a way to have them support my paper, rather than feeling like I just threw in sources because it's a requirement.
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