First step, Alan, is that this has to stop being 1,691 words long, and become less than 1,001 words long. You can and do write clearly. Now you have to write shorter, by structuring as clearly as you write. The first requirement is the outline. It is possible to write a 100,000-word book without an outline, but an essay of 1,000 words must be carefully outlined. Each point, usually down to the paragraph and in some places to the sentence level, has to be placed in relation to the others, and the transitions, or white spaces, between points must be carefully filled. Sequence is the most important kind of order: it brings the rest in its train. Here you begin in an orderly fashion and then the sequence breaks down.

Put this inside the limits of the assignment and then we can both go to work on it.