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AP English Language and Composition
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Unit 1: Claims, Evidence, and the Rhetorical Situation
Here is the single most common weak answer in this whole course. "The writer uses a rhetorical question.…
5:54
Unit 2: Audience, Thesis, and Supporting Evidence
Here is a test you can run on your own drafts in about ten seconds. Read one paragraph and ask: would th…
5:57
Unit 3: Line of Reasoning and Methods of Development
Unit 3 is where the course stops being about parts and starts being about structure, and here is the tes…
5:18
Unit 4: Introductions, Conclusions, and Development
Unit 4 covers the two positions in a text where a writer's choices are most visible — the beginning and …
5:41
Unit 5: Organization, Coherence, and Style
The CED's statement of the body paragraph is exact and worth memorising. The body paragraphs of a writte…
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Unit 6: Evidence, Thesis, and Stylistic Choices
Unit 6 is the synthesis unit, and it contains the single sharpest distinction in the course. A position …
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Unit 7: Qualifying Arguments, Syntax, and Conventions
Most students assume a stronger-sounding claim scores better. The opposite is true, and it is easy to se…
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Unit 8: Audience, Tone, and Sentence Craft
A writer's style is the mix of word choice, syntax and conventions employed by that writer. Style is a c…
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Unit 9: Refining Qualified Arguments
Unit 9 is short, and it is the course's final move: how to handle the arguments that oppose yours. Every…