The document provides a prompt for writing a business letter on a given topic by choosing from a list of roles, audiences, and formats. The roles are yourself, your history teacher, or a historical figure. The audiences are your mom, a company of your choice, or the school board. The formats are to tell your mom how you feel about her, write about good or poor customer service from a company, or take a position on school uniforms for the school board. Criteria for scoring the letter include including all parts of the business letter format, proper formatting, fully developing the topic, and revising and editing the letter.

1. Business Letter Raft
Below is a list of Roles, Audiences, and topics to choose from. Pick one you feel you can talk about fully
and type a business letter using correct format.
Role Audience Format Topic
Yourself Your Mom Tell your mom how you feel about
her and what she means to you.
Business Letter
*Do NOT ask for anything (-5)
Yourself Company of your choice. Write a letter to a company you feel
gave you really good service or really
poor service. Explain your
experience.
Yourself Robert Hayward Write a letter to the school board
Sumter School District explaining your position on school
1345 Wilson Hall Road uniforms. Should ADM students be
Sumter, SC 29150 expected to wear school uniforms or
not? Why do you feel that way?
Your history Historical Figure This person has started to lose heart
teacher in their life. Tell them how history
will remember them and why they
are important to history.
Please make sure you self-evaluate before you print your memo out so you can make appropriate changes
before hand. Also, make sure you put your name in the footer of your memo.
Criteria 5 4 3 2 1 0 Self Total
All parts present in All parts 4-5 parts 3 parts 2 parts 1 part Not in
Business Letter(x3) present present present present present evidence
All parts formatted All parts 4-5 parts 3 parts 2 parts 1 part
Not in
correctly in business letter formatted formatted formatted formatted formatted
evidence
(even margins) (x3) correctly correctly correctly correctly correctly
Topic
All information included in Topic fully Topic is Not in
developed
business letter (x2) developed suggested evidence
some
All Most Some Few No
Letter revised and edited revisions revisions revisions revisions revisions
made made made made made
Score of Score of Score of Score of Score of
SC writing grade
14-15 12-13 9-11 6-8 6 or less
Total
Scoring for the essay is as follows:
A score of 14-15 will get “5”
Essay Scores Scores A score of 12-14 will get “4”
Content (4) A score of 9-11 will get “3”
Organization (4) A score of 6-8 will get “2”
Voice (3) A score of less than 6 will get “1”
Conventions (4)
Total (15)