Read the letter below and answer the following questions

a. what is the subject of the letter? to what is the writer responding?

b. does the writer agree or disagree with something in the publication? how would you describe the tone of voice?

c. did the writer think critically about the subject before submitting the letter? if so, how can you tell? if not, identify the writer's barriers to critical thinking. what steps to engaging critical thinking did the writer skip, if any?

d. was the letter to the editor constructive for the publication, or was it merely an avenue for the writer to express support or contempt?

Rewrite the letter. apply critical thinking to make the writer's message more effective

Dear Editor:

It is time to make a stand against the extreme environmentalists. Every day I read something about saving this or conserving that. what about saving humanity? Environmental groups want to turn all of the siskiyou mountain range and brown mountain at highway 140 north to diamond peak at highway 58 into more monument land and wilderness. i say no! This is our land, i have been enjoying these forests for 40 years and don't see any huge physical changes except where we have reforested in the past, which needs to be logged now, but the extremists have this timber planted by man deemed as old growth. Because of these extreme environmentalists, we can't drill for oil, log public land, build nuclear energy plants or mine for rock and minerals in our country. we have the largest oil reserves in the world, some of the best timber in the world but we also have the best extreme environmentalists in the world. i say we take our country back, or the only people in the future that will appreciate these well preserved lands will be the Chinese when they come clear-cut and mine it all with absolutely no forest management plan.