Write a three to five paragraph letter persuading a specific audience to take action of some kind. Think about recent situations at your place of work, an organization to which you belong, or in your daily life that present opportunities to write a persuasive letter. When responding to this question, be sure to make the audience for your letter clear in a correctly formatted greeting. Here are some questions that you might consider: Did you buy a product or service with a warranty that a company refused to validate when something went wrong? If so, you might write a complaint letter asking for justification for the refusal, requesting that the warranty policy be changed, or requesting reimbursement for the money you overpaid due to a warranty mix up.
Did you recently have a negative experience with a company? Would a letter of complaint to the general manager, president, or chairperson help raise awareness of the situation and prevent it from happening again?
Have you recently attempted to follow an organizational or departmental policy that failed to meet your needs, answer your questions, or accurately represent a situation? If so, you might write a request letter (or memo) to someone in a decision-making position (e. g., manager, government official, department chair) requesting a specific change in the policy. Consider how a new policy or a change in an existing policy may help alleviate the problem and ultimately benefit policy users as well as decision makers.
Is there an employee in your organization who is going up for promotion or is doing exceptional work and might benefit from a letter of recognition?
Is there an employee at a company who consistently gives excellent customer service and might benefit from a letter of recognition?

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

Read this statement: "but old fears have a way of clinging like cobwebs." how is this statement related to figurative language? this statement demonstrates personification. this statement demonstrates a hyperbole. this statement demonstrates a onomatoepia. this demonstrates a simile.

What is a generalization? a. a series of events that make up what happens in a story b. hints or clues that tell you what is going to happen in a story c. the final resolution or event that ties up loose ends in a story d. a simple statement about something complicated