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http://www.garywill.com/worksearch/covlet1.htm
Gary Will’s Work Search
This site provides excellent sample cover letters for resumes.  It gives tips on how to write a persuasive cover letter.

http://www.quintcareers.com/cover_letter_mistakes.html
Don’t Make These 10 Cover Letter Mistakes
This Quintessential Careers website provides examples of what not to do when writing cover letters.

http://www.pakin.org/complaint/
The Automatic Complaint Letter Generator
A great source for bad examples.  An autogenerator produces complaint letters of any length.  Fun!

http://ethepeople.org/
Here's a convenient way for students to send a persuasive letter to one of 140,000 local, state, or federal offices.  All they have to do is draft and edit their letters and fill in their zip code, and this site will send the message to their local representatives.