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Persuasive Advocacy Letter 
Persuasive Advocacy Letter
Students are to choose an issue from their communitiy that they care enough about to take a position. 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. This is a typed letter.
Rubric Code: YXW7869
By mikeulmer79
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Subject: Social Sciences  
Type: Project  
Grade Levels: 9-12

Powered by iRubric Persuasive/Expository Letter
  Attempted

2 pts

Developing

3 pts

Proficient

4 pts

Distinguished

5 pts

Clearly Extends Ideas

Attempted

Fails to extend ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration.
Developing

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.
Distinguished

Clearly extends ideas presented in primary or secondary sources through original analysis, evaluation, and elaboration.
Position and Counterargument

Attempted

Fails to defend a position with any evidence and fails to address the reader's counterarguments.
Developing

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 (including facts, expert opinions, quotations, expressions of commonly held beliefs, logical reasoning, anecdotes, observations, and analogies) and addresses reader's counterarguments.
Distinguished

States and maintains a position, authoritatively defends that position with precise and relevant evidence and convincingly addresses reader's counterarguments.
Call To Action

Attempted

May provide a weak or unrealistic call to action that is related to the advocacy cause.
Developing

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.
Distinguished

Provides a meaningful call to action that is responsive to the advocacy cause.
Tone and Focus: Aware of Audience

Attempted

Demonstrates a lack of tone and focus related to the supposed audience or lacking audience awareness.
Developing

Demonstrates an inconsistent tone and focus related to the audience.
Proficient

Consistent tone and focus with a general sense of audience.
Distinguished

Consistent tone and focus and demonstrates a clear sense of audience.
Language and Conventions

Attempted

Contains serious errors in conventions and uses limited vocabulary.
Developing

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.
Distinguished

Contains few, if any, errors in conventions. Provides precise and appropriate language.





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