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Assignment Prompt

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For this assignment, you will be writing a letter compelling a friend or family member to change either a behavior or a belief with which you disagree. Choose your own topic, but for example, this letter could petition an enthusiastic neighbor to scale down his blinding Christmas decorations, an immature cousin to take a gap year between high school and college, a grandparent to vote to pass the new school district budget, a friend to stop drinking, or a spouse to reconcile with an estranged sibling. Because the letter will be written to an individual of your choosing, you must tailor your 

language

 and 

logic

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 to the person to whom you are writing. 

Assignment-Specific Requirements:

LengthThis assignment should be at least 750 words. 

Thesis

: Underline your 

thesis statement

 or the main 

claim

 of your letter.

Sources Needed: None required. 

Cite

 if used, following 

MLA

guidelines

Page Formatting: Use MLA guidelines.  Also add an opening salutation (e.g. Dear Sarah, or Hello, Jon.), and a closing salutation & signature (Best regards, Tom or Sincerely, Liza)

MLA

 Requirements: See 

Formatting your Essay: MLA 8th Edition

Rhetorical Mode

The goal of 

persuasive writing

 is to get a 

reader

 (your 

audience

) to agree with your 

point of view

Persuasive writing

 blends facts and emotion to convince the reader that the writer is right. This 

genre

 relies on opinion and emotion to a greater extent than argumentative writing, but in moving a reader, the successful persuasive letter also deploys logically sound 

argumentation

 and quite often researched support and fact. 

Rhetorical Considerations

Purpose:

The purpose of 

drafting

 a persuasive letter is to move your reader to agree with your point of view. 

Persuasion

 is single-minded; it is based on a conviction that a particular way of thinking or acting is the only way to go; all of the energy of the letter works toward this end. As a writer, you will present one side–your side. While an 

opposing point

 should be mentioned, it is only mentioned to be refuted or dismissed in the service of your position.  

Audience

:

Persuasive writing is almost always written with a particular audience in mind.  For this piece of writing, you will direct your persuasive letter to one person. Thus, your audience is not imagined, but rather very real, and that person and their characteristics will inform many of the choices you make as a writer. The persuasive letter requires constant negotiation with another person’s mind. At every phase of the writing process, as you prewrite, draft, and 

revise

, this assignment will ask you to imagine and anticipate how your reader feels, responds, and thinks.   

Form:

This piece of writing will be presented using a letter format.  Thus, while you still need an MLA-

style

 heading to format your work for submission, you will address your letter directly to your reader with a formal letter salutation. 

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