Letter to the editor on School Bullies Erica Patterson DeVry University Prewriting for Letter Assignment 1. Theme/Topic: Bullies in School 2. Angle: I agree with Mr. Smith the editor when he stated bulling in schools can be reduced. 3. Purpose and Thesis: I am writing to support Mr. Smith the editor ideas along with adding additional ideas. Thesis: I agree with Mr. Smith because he stated school bullying can be reduced and it can! I think in order to reduce
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Unit 4 Project: Letter to the Editor October 24, 2009 The Washington Post 1150 15th Street NW Washington, DC 20007 Dear Editor: I am writing this letter in response to the article by Alan K. Simpson entitled, “A Sentence too Cruel for Children.” Simpson’s discussion concerns the decision that will be rendered during the oral arguments held by the U.S. Supreme Court on November 9th with respect to two cases; Sullivan vs. Florida and Graham vs. Florida. The deliberation will determine
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Letter to the Editor on Children of Divorce In the article of “Is Divorce Bad for Children?” by Hal Arkowitz and Scott O. Lillenfeldm, talks about how children are affected, when their parents are going to split up. I had felt so many things, when my parents split up, luckily I was old enough to understand, but yet I felt all kinds of pain and emotion’s going through my head. I know how it feels, when I see children go through so much mixed emotions. Growing up with my nephew’s who lived with me
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Letter to the Editor Wall Street Journal Slow Economic Growth affects the efforts to fight poverty Dear Sir, As a business student, the article by McKay (2016), Slow Growth Clouds Fight Against Poverty caught my full attention. This is because I found the article to be very informative and it enlightened me so much. I therefore write you to concur with the comments of the writer. I want to point out some of the points that I found very informative in the article. It is true that slow growth
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has sparked among residents of the East Park area after the ruination of a “freshly painted” wall of an East Park Café. The editorial piece ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ written by the editor, published in ‘The Daily Tribute’ 16th July 2009, is written in response to this “puerile cultural vandalism”. The editor slams council officials and the local government for “[dragging their] heels for months” and then “[refusing] to offer support” to local businesses and individuals. One day after the publication
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has sparked among residents of the East Park area after the ruination of a “freshly painted” wall of an East Park Café. The editorial piece ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ written by the editor, published in ‘The Daily Tribute’ 16th July 2009, is written in response to this “puerile cultural vandalism”. The editor slams council officials and the local government for “[dragging their] heels for months” and then “[refusing] to offer support” to local businesses and individuals. One day after the publication
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Report The following report will outline the usefulness of the living and working in the community elective. Three types of texts that we have studied convey the usefulness of this elective. Close reference will be aimed at advertisement, letter to the editor and feature article. According to the board of studies, we have been provided with real life examples of commonly used texts in the community. These appear in support documents. The usefulness of advertisement is to appeal the common values
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serious questioning. The writer’s contention is that the Gillard’s Government change in policy of freeing women and children from detention has caused an influx in asylum seekers, especially children. Unlike the first piece, the second piece is a letter to the editor, “Free ride not wanted”, directed towards a broader audience of not only voting Australian citizens, but also the nonvoting younger citizens, who have interests in the issue and will one day be voting. The writer’s contention is that Australia’s
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Initial of editor. (Publication year). Chapter title. In A. Editor & B. Editor (Eds.), Title of book (pages of chapter). Location: Publisher. Baxter, L.A. (1987). Cognition and communication in the relationship process. In R. Burnett, P. McGhee, & D. Clarke (Eds.), Accounting for relationships: Explanation, representation, and knowledge (pp. 192-212). London: Metheun. Example of a Book by One Author Last name, Initials of editors. (Publication year). Title of book: Capital letter also used for
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our final project is a portfolio consisting of revisions of the blueprint for progress that you submitted in unit 6, the letter to the editor that you wrote in unit 5, and the presentation that you created in unit 7. The presentation can take the form of a blog, podcast, brochure, slide show, or one of the other multi-media forms covered in the tech labs Ritu McDowell[19:31 ET]: •What did you learn about yourself as a writer? As a thinker?•What did you learn about the process of writing?•What skills
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