Posted: December 6th, 2022

ADVOCACY LETTER

ADVOCACY LETTER INSTRUCTIONS

GOAL: A goal of the assignment is for you to be able to send the letter to the audience/stakeholder. Here are additional goals:
• You will write a persuasive advocacy letter that makes a direct request for action or that offers a new perspective about a current conversation.
• You will use the research and the preliminary arguments you made in your literature review and tailor those to a new audience.
• You will write to a specific audience, understanding their needs and expectations.
The stakeholder will be a person or organization who has decision-making authority or the power to implement your suggestions or respond to the issue you are advocating for. You will spend some time researching this stakeholder, so that you can prepare a strategy for the advocacy letter. You will write an evidence-based argument to your stakeholder defending your stance and proposing a plan of action the stakeholder should take.

INSTRUCTIONS:
• Write a letter, likely no longer than two single-spaced pages
• Use a combination of reputable, appropriate sources. The type and number of sources will depend on how you decide to approach the audience and on the audience’s expectations. The literature review and the research you completed prior to the literature review should all help you as you write this letter. NOTE: You will be writing to sophisticated audiences who will be persuaded only if you use highly credible evidence. Introduce and synthesize the evidence you provide. General encyclopedias, dictionaries (unless they are specialized dictionaries), or popular magazines and websites (About.com, TIME Magazine, U. S. News & World Report, etc.) will probably not be appropriate.
RECOMMENDATIONS: Make deliberate choices: decide how to attribute sources, how to situate your own experience as the writer, how to organize your main claims and your main argument. You will be writing as an undergraduate student, as yourself. You will not be approaching the audience pretending to be an expert, or pretending to be someone else.
GRADING CRITERIA: The assignment will be graded based on the appropriateness of the evidence you use, how well the tone, word choice, and organization of the letter meet the expectations of the audience you researched, and how well you advance your argument, while acknowledging multiple perspectives in potential conflict with your argument. The final product must conform to the basic genre conventions of the advocacy letter genre, adjusted for the version of the advocacy letter you decide to use.

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