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Persuasive Advocacy Letter to a Public Official 
Persuasive Advocacy Letter to a Public Official
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: UX93WW6
By jpeustermann
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Subject: Political Science  
Type: Project  
Grade Levels: 9-12, Undergraduate

Powered by iRubric Persuasive/Expository Letter
  Below Basic

0 pts

Basic

1 pts

Proficient

3 pts

Advanced

5 pts

Position and Counterargument
1 pts

Below Basic

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

Defends a position with little evidence and may address the reader's counterarguments if necessary.
Proficient

States and maintains a position, generally defends that position with precise and relevant evidence and addresses reader's counterarguments if necessary.
Advanced

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



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