@article{Armstrong_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={LETTER TO THE EDITOR: EXTRA CREDIT WRITING ASSIGNMENT}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/letter-to-the-editor-extra-credit-writing}, abstractNote={This assignment asks you to write a letter to the editor or an opinion piece for a national newspaper or magazine about the topic of your final research paper. You will need to take a side and advocate for it. For example, if you wrote your paper on human cloning, you might write a letter arguing why Congress should (or should not) ban human cloning research. Be creative—feel free to adopt a persona other than your own, if you like. That is, you may write as a doctor, a patient, a bioethicist, lawyer, sociologist...use your imagination. You could write as a patient in need of a liver transplant. Or you could write as a medical researcher who runs drug trials in Africa. In order to write a convincing and effective letter, you will need to consider your audience carefully. Who are you trying to reach with this message? How will you change the minds of those who may not agree with you? How can you make your argument persuasively and authoritatively? What will be the best forum for your letter or opinion piece? That is, will you submit it to Science, the New York Times, Newsweek, JAMA, etc.?}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Armstrong, Elizabeth}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }