Revision Plan

I have a multi-tiered revision plan for my paper, which hopefully I will get a chance to play with during the spring break that is becoming a marathon of academic assignments. The most important concern I have right now for the paper is based on a determination of audience. Who am I writing this paper for - and why?

Therefore I want to tear into the paper and give it some real teeth, starting with these three suggestions:

Plan A.

Imagine yourself to be the most die-hard prescriptivist possible and then re-read your paper. What in your writing might provide a crack in the shield of the prescriptivist?

Plan B. 

Imagine then a slightly more amenable audience, readers who are on the descriptivist/prescriptivist fence—or who don’t know about this distinction to begin with. Re-read your paper while asking whether you have given them reason enough to bend toward the approaches you recommend.

Plan C.

What will someone who already agrees with you about how grammar should be taught take from your writing?

Plan X.
Also, the title is horrible. Hopefully a sense of audience will help me to come up with a more relevant version. 

Plan YZ
I have requested a meeting with my son's grammar teachers to discuss how and why they teach what I think is prescriptive grammar. 

And it still needs some grammar oomphing, stylistic tweaking, and general mucking with. That will come with reading it over and over again. As always.