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Persuasive Advocacy Letter to a Public Official
Persuasive Advocacy Letter
Students are to choose an issue from their community (local, national, global) that they care enough about to advocate. They are to then write an advocacy letter for change, carefully considering their audience and using primary and secondary information as evidence to support their arguments. They must have an appropriate call to action and correct business letter format. The letter will be sent via e-mail to the public official selected by the student.
Rubric Code:
C8AX8A
By
lizmorrisonteac
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Subject:
Political Science
Type:
Project
Grade Levels:
9-12, Undergraduate
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Persuasive/Expository Letter
Below Basic
6 pts
Basic
7 pts
Proficient
9 pts
Advanced
10 pts
Position and Counterargument
1 pts
Below Basic
Fails to defend a position with any evidence and fails to address the reader's counterarguments.
Basic
Defends a position with little evidence and may address the reader's counterarguments.
Proficient
States and maintains a position, generally defends that position with precise and relevant evidence and addresses reader's counterarguments.
Advanced
States and maintains a position, authoritatively defends that position with precise and relevant evidence and convincingly addresses reader's counterarguments.
Clearly Extends Ideas
1 pts
Below Basic
Fails to extend ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration.
Basic
Extends some ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration.
Proficient
Extends ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration.
Advanced
Clearly extends ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration.
Call To Action
1 pts
Below Basic
May provide a weak or unrealistic call to action that is related to the advocacy cause.
Basic
Provides a debatably realistic or appropriate call to action that is related to the advocacy cause.
Proficient
Provides an appropriate call to action that is related to the advocacy cause.
Advanced
Provides a meaningful call to action that is responsive to the advocacy cause.
Tone and Focus: Aware of Audience
1 pts
Below Basic
Demonstrates a lack of tone and focus related to the supposed audience or lacking audience awareness.
Basic
Demonstrates an inconsistent tone and focus related to the audience.
Proficient
Consistent tone and focus with a general sense of audience.
Advanced
Consistent tone and focus. Demonstrates a clear sense of audience (elected official).
Language and Conventions
1 pts
Below Basic
Contains serious errors in conventions and uses limited vocabulary.
Basic
Contains several errors in conventions and uses basic and predictable language.
Proficient
Contains some errors in conventions but they do not interfere with reader understanding. Provides some precise language.
Advanced
Contains few, if any, errors in conventions. Provides precise and appropriate language utilizing a business letter format.
Keywords:
Advocacy Letter
Subjects:
English
Political Science
Types:
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