The Age of Reason Political

Political Digital Petition Pamphlet

Write a Political Digital Petition Pamphlet about a modern issue. You could
persuade your audience to vote for a particular measure, bill, or law, or you could
write a political position to persuade the American people to take action over a
social or political issue – transportation, unregulated housing growth, taxation,
Water, DACA, Women’s Rights, Animal rights ect.

Style Requirements: 5-7 typed pages following all rules of MLA. This includes
proper formatting, proper MLA parenthetical citations, Work Cited Page, and all
other MLA style requirements.

See the Owl at Purdue

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Your political pamphlet must contain the following:

1. A statement—made in one or sometimes two sentences—that announces what will

follow in the essay - not only the announcement of a topic but also the claim that the
writer is making about that topic.

2. All manner of support, or evidence, for the position you proffer in the thesis statement:
reasons, examples, facts, statistics, quotations. You must include three to four sources in
your pamphlet. (All evidence must be cited properly” (Cappelli 70).

3. Critical responses. The writer should anticipate what critics will say to undermine his
or her argument. (Concession and then refutation of opposing views.) You should come
up with responses to opposing criticism.

4. THREE SOURCES FROM EDUCATIONAL JOURNALS.

5. The pamphlet must contain a rhetorical question and parallel structure.

6.. The pamphlet must contain 3 appeals to logic and 3 appeals to emotion.

7. Cannot contain outright fabrications or lies.

Rubric:
90-100 80-89 74-79 73 and below
Content Contains current Contains Contains an issue, Does not address
politically relevant politically relevant attempts to take a an issue or take a
issue, takes an issue, takes a stance, contains stance on the issue,
obvious stance, stance, contains some research on does not contain
contains current factual research on issue, attempts to research on any
factual research on issue, acknowledge and issue, does not
issue, acknowledges and respond to acknowledge or
acknowledges and responds to opposition. respond to
deftly responds to opposition. opposition.
opposition.
Persuasive Appeals Contains 3 appeals Contains 2-3 Contains 1-2 Contains 0-1
to logic and 3 appeals to logic appeals to logic appeals to logic
appeals to emotion and 2-3 appeals to and 1-2 appeals and 0-1 appeals, 0-
that are well- emotion that are and a rhetorical 1 rhetorical
developed and used to persuade question or parallel question or parallel
explained and used audience and a structure, but are structure but are
to persuade rhetorical question not very not persuasive.
audience as well as or parallel persuasive.
well-developed structure used to
rhetorical question persuade.
and parallel
structure.
Tone Persuasive and Persuasive and Convincing, but Tone is not
convincing, but convincing, but respectful. persuasive or is
respectful. Tone is respectful. Tone is Audience may or rude. Audience is
specialized for appropriate for may not be not considered.
audience. audience. considered
Format Pamphlet– with Pamphlet – with Pamphlet – with Pamphlet – with no
engaging interesting little introduction, introduction, no
introduction, main introduction, main main idea is not established main
idea is clear, idea is somewhat very clear, some idea, few details
persuasive details clear, persuasive details that support that do not clearly
that support main details that support main idea, and an support main idea,
idea, and main idea, and a attempt at a and no conclusion
thoughtful clear conclusion conclusion
conclusion
Mechanics Grammatically Grammatically Contains Contains
correct with correct with some detracting significant
sentence variety, sentence variety, 1- grammatical errors grammatical errors
no run-on 2 run-on sentences with some run-on with several run-on
sentences or or fragments, no sentences or sentences or
fragments, no wrong pronoun fragments, or fragments, misused
wrong pronoun antecedent, and 1- wrong pronoun pronoun
antecedent, and no 2 spelling errors. antecedent, and antecedent, and
spelling errors. several spelling severe spelling
errors. errors.