{"id":11393,"date":"2024-02-13T00:29:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/this-week-you-will-be-composing-a-more-traditional-piece-of-response-writing-in-the-form-of-a-letter-to-the-editor\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T00:29:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:29:05","slug":"this-week-you-will-be-composing-a-more-traditional-piece-of-response-writing-in-the-form-of-a-letter-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/this-week-you-will-be-composing-a-more-traditional-piece-of-response-writing-in-the-form-of-a-letter-to-the-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"This week you will be composing a more traditional piece of response writing in the form of a letter to the editor."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<h2 style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.875rem; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.4; cursor: auto;\"><bdi style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">High Stakes<\/bdi><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Content<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<section style=\"font-size: 14px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" aria-labelledby=\"\">\n<ol style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.6; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\" data-gramm=\"false\">\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">This week you will be composing a more traditional piece of response writing in the form of a letter to the editor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Assignment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Choose one of the pre-existing texts below to&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">respond<\/strong>&nbsp;to in a text drafted for traditional media. You can respond to the same text that you responded to in the New Media Response assignment, but you&nbsp;<em style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">must<\/em>&nbsp;draft a response from scratch. This week, draft a Letter to the Editor of the publication that originally printed your chosen article in which you respond. In other words, if your chosen text originally appeared in the&nbsp;<em style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">LA Times<\/em>, then you are writing a letter to the Editor of the&nbsp;<em style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">LA Times<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Review &#8220;Writing Letters to the Editor&#8221; in this week&#8217;s Module Readings and Resources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 3rem 0px 1.5rem; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&#8220;Editorial: How Can Kids Learn Without Homework and Rigid Deadlines? Quite Well, It Turns Out&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;by Los Angeles Times Editorial Board for the&nbsp;<em style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Los Angeles Times<\/em>&nbsp;(opens in new window): Frame your response around whether or not you agree with the editorial board&#8217;s stance on homework and deadlines. Would it be better if we relaxed homework expectations for kids? Should this be implemented across all levels of education? Or is this dangerous?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Grading Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 3rem 0px 1.5rem; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">You&nbsp;<em style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">must<\/em>&nbsp;refer to your chosen text in your response. You&#8217;re&nbsp;<em style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">responding<\/em>&nbsp;to it. Choose a handful of specific points made in the original text you wish to respond to. Quote the original and offer your take.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Think about how texts written for traditional media acknowledge sources. You&nbsp;<em style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">must<\/em>&nbsp;acknowledge any sources you use in your writing according to expectations for traditional media. This includes your chosen text and any other source material you incorporate.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Submissions should be around 700 words and in the format appropriate to your chosen genre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding: 0px 3rem 0px 1.5rem; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&#8220;How to Write a Text Response&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;from Literacy Ideas (opens in new tab): A detailed look at how to draft a piece of response writing<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><a style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto;\">&#8220;Writing Letters to the Editor&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;from The University of Kansas (opens in new window): A detailed look at how to most effectively approach drafting a letter to the editor of a print or online publication.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><br style=\"line-height: inherit; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High Stakes&nbsp;Content Introduction This week you will be composing a more traditional piece of response writing in the form of a letter to the editor. 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