Positional Letter

 No Plagerism

Cite All Sources

Recall:

 S
ociety
generally
decides which problems are most serious and what should be
done through debate.  Debates
generally not based on facts but based upon people’s
opinions and life experiences. Your final project is to write a one page position letter
that
provides factual information to sway an organization to promote your
‘best solution
’  from
your midterm project.  
Goal
:
To objective
ly promote your issue with factual information in order to
educate
others
and gain advocacy support from others
.  The letter should be
written in order to sway support of your best solution with FACTUAL information.  
You need to use accurate facts, cite your sources in a concise format.  
Writing Your Position Paper
Your position paper must represent only One Issue
1.
Identify an organization, agency or individual
in a position of power that you
want to take on your issue.
2.
Introduce your issue and your position of the issue.
3.
Present facts that support the reasons why the issue needs to be addressed  
4.
Summarize the fac
ts of your argument and present your solution.
5.
Detail a
call to action
-action or activities that could be or can be taken to
implement your solution
.  
Formatting:

Position paper should be one (1) page long.  One page equates to between
200-
375 words.  

Single spaced and typed in 12 point font either Arial or Times New Roman.

Top of Page:
place your name
and information  

Identify:
Address to the organizations, agencies and individuals
that you
should have identified who might support to your ‘
best
’ solution
.
This
information should n
ot be included in the 200
-375 word count
.

Separate Page:
 Work Cited page that gives a fully referenced resource
listing of where the facts in your paper came from.
This information should
n
ot be included in the 200
-375 word count
POSITIONAL
FORMATTING
EXAMPLE:    
NOTE: The words in parentheses
& XXX
have been added for instructional purposes and should NOT
appear on your position paper.

(Date)
(Identified
potential support
Organizations, Agencies and Individuals
)
(Actual Individual within the Organization or Agency)
(Actual Mailing Address
)
(Introduction of self and position)
I am,
XXXX and I
propose XXXXX
.  
(Facts, statistics supporting
why
your issue needs
to be addressed)
The reason that this issue needs to be addressed  
XXXXXXXX
(Summary of the facts and your solution)
As shown
XXXXXXXXXXX
. We must start XXXXXXX.
Solution to this problem
XXXXXXX. It can be accomplished XXXXXX.   
(Action that can be taken to implement your solution)
I urge you to {
attend,
write, participate, adopt practices
} XXXXX
Sincerely,
(Your Name)
(Your Mailing Address)
(Your email information)