A writing assignment is a requirement in Government courses. As per syllabus, completion of a writing assignment is essential to satisfactory outcome of this course, as it is worth 100 points toward your final grade. Your letter must be submitted on or before Sunday, September 29, 2019.

1. Identify the U.S. House of Representative who represents the district where you reside.

2. Choose two social issues or public policies.

3. Write a minimum of a 1000 word letter to either your U.S. House of Representative that

a. Describes the social issues or policies chosen

b. Identify these social issues/policies impact on the people

c. Propose possible solutions for the social issues or policies chosen and

d. Uses language suitable for communicating with a legislator.

4. The letter or email should be appropriately addressed to the U.S. House of Representative

5. The letter should utilize three credible sources. This does not include websites such as Wikipedia or ask.com. Please include your references on a works cited page that should be separate from the body of your letter (the actual letter should not have any internal citations in it) It is exceptable to reference throughout the letter…"According to Dallas Morning News" but not (Nacoste 2018).

6. Your letter must be typed, double-spaced, use Times New Roman 12 point font and standard one inch margins.

7. Please upload all the before mentioned documents in one file and in .doc,.dox or .pdf.

8. Be careful not to plagiarize!

Plagiarism is the use of an author’s words or ideas as if they were one’s own without giving credit to the source, including, but not limited to, failure to acknowledge a direct quotation.

Refusal to follow directions will result in severe punishments! Penalties will accrue for not including the minimum number of sources, including Wikipedia. Failure to follow word count requirements will result in the loss of a letter grade or not including references on a separate page.