Letter+to+the+Editor

Letters to the editor (LTE's) are responses to newspaper or magazine articles that public citizens (non-journalists) write. These are sent to the publication and are usually intended to be printed.
 * What is it?**


 * Format**:

Identify the article you are responding to and the date it was published at the top:

//Re: Davenport grinds out a win, Aug. 17//

Letters to the editor are brief. Explain the opinion that you are responding to, then explain your own opinion. Get to the point. Use personal examples and persuasive appeals (ethos, pathos, logos). Do not personally attack the original author. Only respond to the opinions, not the person. Include your name and location at the end of your letter:

Tom Robbins //El Cajon// 

[|LTE Examples]

Assignment: read the following article as a class and write your opinion in a letter to the editor of the San Diego Union Tribune. [|News Report] (video) [|"Jailhouse ruckus"](opinion article)