Students in LTE 101 will identify one or more prospective publishers of letters to the editor in their local areas; retrieve, read and understand the identified publications' letter policies and submission information and add that information to a class database (which will eventually be made publicly accessible to facilitate LTE submissions by non-students and former students); identify topics of likely interest to the identified publications and to the reading public; and research, write, improve, proofread and successfully submit a guidelines-compliant letter to the editor for publication.