Write a letter to the editor on a very specific issue pertaining to civic engagement in our contemporary world.

Write a letter to the editor on a very specific issue pertaining to civic engagement in our contemporary world.
Demonstrate respectful disagreement or persuasion.
Assignment Tasks

Imagine you are writing a ‘letter to the editor’ or an editorial on a very specific issue pertaining to civic engagement in our contemporary world.

Write a letter that consists of a minimum of 300 words.
Demonstrate in your letter how some incident, writing, or challenge from U.S. History (that we have studied this semester) may provide some guidance in addressing this contemporary issue
Your letter should demonstrate expertise and a high level of research. You may include endnotes and references if you so choose.
Advocate in your editorial a specific course of action that may help to address the challenge you wish to address. The specific course of action you advocate should be informed by the lessons of the past.
Your editorial may certainly engage in critique, but it should model civility, respect for alternative views, and, above all, it should address theory, science, and/or policy, and not engage in ad hominem attack or obloquy.
Criteria

Your editorial will be evaluated on the quality of your analysis, on the relevance of your recommendations to U.S. History, on the clarity, complexity, innovative nuance, and persuasiveness of your argument, on its adherence to basic mechanics of writing (good grammar, spelling, organization, etc.), and on its tone (civility and respectfulness). You will NOT be evaluated on whether or not I, personally, or anyone else in the class agrees with your position. Nor will you be evaluated on the degree to which you, personally, agree with what your editorial advocates.

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