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With your help, students will have updated resources for their study of rhetorical devices and argumentation. Right now, they are using very dated texts that do not account for social media and the digital advancements of recent years. I'm requesting a class set of the new edition of Everything's an Argument. This college-level AP Language and Composition course introduces students to a wide range of prose in order both to recognize and craft the rhetorical situation, examining and analyzing author, audience, purpose, and subject. The course meets the rigorous requirements of a college level composition and rhetoric class and includes the reading and analysis of expository, analytical, personal, and argumentative texts from a variety of authors across a range of historical contexts. These works provide examples of stylistic choices that students are expected to adapt to their own expository, analytical, personal, and argumentative writing as they discover and create their own style and voice. Reading works representing a wide variety of prose styles and genres and covering topics from public policies, popular culture, and personal experience, students will learn how to become critical thinkers and writers. Furthermore, they will apply their critical faculties to their own writing by revising and improving their essays across several drafts in response to constructive teacher and peer critique. One paper will be a literary analysis, two will be expository essays, two personal, four argumentative, and each week students will write brief (one-to-three-paragraph) analyses of the readings. In addition, students will be required to thoroughly research relevant topics, synthesize information from a variety of sources, and document their knowledge in a cogent well-written report using proper cite notations such as MLA or APA. This Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Exam can help save my students' families a semester of tuition for an English course.

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With your help, students will have updated resources for their study of rhetorical devices and argumentation. Right now, they are using very dated texts that do not account for social media and the digital advancements of recent years. I'm requesting a class set of the new edition of Everything's an Argument. This college-level AP Language and Composition course introduces students to a wide range of prose in order both to recognize and craft the rhetorical situation, examining and analyzing author, audience, purpose, and subject. The course meets the rigorous requirements of a college level composition and rhetoric class and includes the reading and analysis of expository, analytical, personal, and argumentative texts from a variety of authors across a range of historical contexts. These works provide examples of stylistic choices that students are expected to adapt to their own expository, analytical, personal, and argumentative writing as they discover and create their own style and voice. Reading works representing a wide variety of prose styles and genres and covering topics from public policies, popular culture, and personal experience, students will learn how to become critical thinkers and writers. Furthermore, they will apply their critical faculties to their own writing by revising and improving their essays across several drafts in response to constructive teacher and peer critique. One paper will be a literary analysis, two will be expository essays, two personal, four argumentative, and each week students will write brief (one-to-three-paragraph) analyses of the readings. In addition, students will be required to thoroughly research relevant topics, synthesize information from a variety of sources, and document their knowledge in a cogent well-written report using proper cite notations such as MLA or APA. This Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Exam can help save my students' families a semester of tuition for an English course.

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