Assignment

Read the prompt and follow the directions to writing TWO versions about an issue

Choose any public issue that disturbs you-be it small or large, campus, community, or cosmic - and write two short papers (one to two pages each), expressing your concern. BOTH papers must be on ONE long document to submit to Moodle; it only accepts a single document.

Before you start this assignment, look the first chapter to the suggestions under "Writing as a Process" and follow the stages outlined there.

1. In the first version, direct your writing to someone connected to, perhaps responsible for, the problem you are concerned about. Your purpose here is to communicate your concern or displeasure and possibly persuade the person responsible to take appropriate action.

2. In the second version, address an individual who in no way connected to the problem you are disturbed about. Your purpose here is to explain the situation and to inform the reader of something he may know nothing about and is not necessarily in a position to change. This means you must include more background detail than was necessary in your first paper.

Label the two papers at the top (1) and (2) and clearly identify each audience.