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This is how I see it:
AP Language and Composition is designed to be equivalent to an entry-level college composition course. Therefore, your expectations should include frequent composition of essays in various styles. There is a large emphasis on the writing process, so you can also expect to be composing multiple drafts of essays as well as engaging in meaningful peer review. In order to gain a command of written language, you should develop a keen sense of how writers craft their works. This, essentially, can be achieved through the study of rhetoric. By learning rhetorical devices, you'll be able to analyze an author's work for its effectivness in establishing purpose, audience, and context. Then, by understanding how a writer uses these devices to achieve an effect, you'll be better equipped to use these devices in your own writing.
The 2010 Advanced Placement Language & Composition Exam is scheduled for Wednesday, May 13th at 8 am.
The College Board's course description:
The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and to become skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer's purposes, audience expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing.
Be sure to check out the website for more detailed descriptions as well as other helpful AP information.
The district's course description:
from Black Horse Pike Regional School District's Course of Study:
In this survey of world literature, students will read selections, which range from the earliest epics to the contemporary literature of a variety of cultures. The study of composition will emphasize the rhetorical styles of argumentation, narration, and exposition. Writing and critical reading with attention to the nuances of language, characteristics of style, and awareness of audience are practiced. Although not required, students are expected to take the Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Examination. Completing summer reading and writing assignments is required. This course is part of the Dual Credit Program offered in association with Gloucester County College.
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