you need to write a letter to your congress person or senator requesting them to support the issue based on some of the facts from the ACLU page.

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Read the attached lecture notes on effective communication, then visit the “Take Action” page of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) website.

Click on “Issues” and select an issue of your interest (click on the subtopic within that issue).

Read the information, then click on the “More” link to continue reading the information. Usually within this information there is a “call to action” to ask Congress or the Senate to support some type of legislation, so you need to write a letter to your congress person or senator requesting them to support the issue based on some of the facts from the ACLU page.

Don’t forget to give the ACLU credit in your letter (According to the ACLU, “43% of women return to an abusive relationship due to difficulty finding housing”).

You can also click on the yellow box under the “more” link that provides a search (click on press releases) to read a press release about a specific case and write a letter to the decision maker in that case. For example: writing to the head of the U.S. Department of Social and Health Services advocating for him/her to support some type of action (you need to conduct some research to identify a person and address).

Don’t forget about visual rhetoric. Your document must look like a professional business letter with formatting you choose to suit the needs of the document.

***Submit your assignment to the dropbox by 5PM (EST) on Sunday. YOU ARE ONLY WRITING ONE LETTER.

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