POLITICAL ACTION ASSIGNMENT
Overview
Political engagement is an important facet of American political life. It is always essential to be politically engaged in your local community. This assignment asks you to write an email to a local official in your community about an issue that concerns you.
Learning Outcomes
By completing this assignment, you will:
Demonstrate your understanding of a branch of your local government. (Stephenville, Texas)
Demonstrate your awareness of a current issue in your community.
Professionally communicate, in writing, your opinion about a local issue in your community.
Tasks
Please write a brief email to a local elected official concerning an issue in your local community. You can select any recent issue in your community that affects you.
Issues can range from public safety, legislation, corruption, public health, etc. Your email can be written to raise a concern or to compliment an official’s work but the tone should be professional and courteous. The email can be addressed to your local councilperson, congressperson, state senator, mayor’s office, etc.
The email to the elected official should be at least one paragraph and 100-200 words. Include a link to a relevant news article or video on the issue you are writing about within the email.
Note: It is not required that you actually send your email or receive a response to earn credit for this assignment, but you are required to create the correspondence in email/letter form and include a relevant link from a news source.
