You live on Maple Street, which is riddled with potholes to the point that drivers and pedestrians are now at risk. In fact, within the past week, a van and a car collided after the car driver swerved...

You live on Maple Street, which is riddled with potholes to the point that drivers and pedestrians are now at risk. In fact, within the past week, a van and a car collided after the car driver swerved to avoid a large pothole. The driver of the car, Sam Parsons, suffered a broken arm and facial cuts; the driver of the van wasn’t hurt but was shaken up. The car was a write-off. Using concrete and specific details and the AIDA format, write a letter to your local city councilor asking him or her to fix the potholes on your street ASAP, before further accidents and perhaps even a death occur. (You may remember this scenario from the bad-news exercises; this is the persuasive side of the pothole issue.)