If you have not chosen another activity to team-teach, this is a good one. Work with a peer to teach this one. This is best done in pairs, but groups of 3-4 are also acceptable. It is not beyond the ability of a single student to accomplish it, but shared ideas can sometimes improve the final product. This is a perfect activity to use in an interdisciplinary lesson which could be taught in the English class or as part of an English unit on writing letters.
Some students write very well, while others do poorly.
With the proper models, students produced very effective research papers. The writing can be done on paper and pencil if it is done as homework. If it is done in class and computers are available, doing the typing can be done in a keyboarding class as an alternative.