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The following prompts are all timed essays included on the English Language and Composition Advanced Placement Exam. Errors will be seen througout the pieces as I have copied them exactly as I had previously wrote them under the times situation to reflect on my improvements and what I need to continue to improve. The practice of offering incentives for charitable acts is widespread, from school projects to fund drives by organizations such as public television stations, to federal income tax deductions for contributions to charities. In a well-written essay, develop a position on the ethics of offering incentives for charitable acts. Read the passage carefully and then write an essay that defends, challenges, or qualifies Sanders' ideas about the relationship between the individual and society in the United States. Use specific evidence to support your position. Read the following sources (including any introductory information) carefully. Then, in an essay that synthesizes at least three of the sources for support, take a position that defends, challenges, or qualifies the claim that television has had a positive impact on presidential elections. The following paragraphs open Joan Didion’s essay “Los Angeles Notebook.” Read them carefully. Then write an essay in which you characterize Didion’s view of the Santa Ana winds and analyze how Didion conveys this view. Your analysis might consider such stylistic elements as diction, imagery, syntax, structure, tone, and selection of detail. Are incoherent or do not address the prompt. May make one point well, but either do not make multiple supporting claims or do not adequately support more than one claim. Focus on the importance of specific words and details from the sources to build an argument. Time to synthesize this dough into some cookies. Are incoherent or do not address the prompt. Mention rhetorical choices with little or no explanation. May make one point well, but either do not make multiple supporting claims or do not adequately support more than one claim. Uniformly offer evidence to support claims. Focus on the importance of specific words and details from the sources to build an argument. Examine your texts closely! Are incoherent or do not address the prompt. May make one point well, but either do not make multiple supporting claims or do not adequately support more than one claim. Uniformly offer evidence to support claims. Focus on the importance of specific words and details from the sources to build an argument. The best kind of frenzy is a puppy frenzy! Unlike its cousin, the AP English Literature and Composition exam, the AP Language and Composition exam (and course) have very little to do with fiction or poetry. So some students used to more traditional English classes may be somewhat at a loss as to what to do to prepare. Luckily for you, I have a whole slate of preparation tips for you! A major thing you can do to prepare for the AP Lang and Comp exam is to read nonfiction—particularly nonfiction that argues a position, whether explicitly (like an op-ed) or implicitly (like many memoirs and personal essays). What is the author's argument? What evidence do they use to support their position? What rhetorical techniques and strategies do they use to build their argument? What counterarguments can you identify? Do they address them? Thinking about these questions with all the reading you do will help you hone your rhetorical analysis skills. Of course, if you're going to be analyzing the nonfiction works you read for their rhetorical techniques and strategies, you need to know what those are! You should learn a robust stable of rhetorical terms from your teacher, but here's my guide to the most important AP Language and Composition terms. Wikibooks offers a list of "Basic Rhetorical Strategies," which explains some of the most fundamental rhetoric-related terms. We've also compiled a list of 20 rhetorical devices you should know. A heroic individual from Riverside schools in Ohio uploaded this aggressively comprehensive list of rhetorical terms with examples. It's 27 pages long, and you definitely shouldn't expect to know all of these for the exam, but it's a useful resource for learning some new terms. Another great resource for learning about rhetorical analysis and how rhetorical devices are actually used is the YouTube Channel Teach Argument, which has videos rhetorically analyzing everything from Taylor Swift music videos to Super Bowl commercials. It's a fun way to think about rhetorical devices and get familiar with argumentative structures. Finally, a great book—which you might already use in your class—is "They Say, I Say." This book provides an overview of rhetoric specifically for academic purposes, which will serve you well for AP preparation and beyond. You also need to practice argumentative and persuasive writing. In particular, you should practice the writing styles that will be tested on the exam: synthesizing your own argument based on multiple outside sources, rhetorically analyzing another piece of writing in-depth, and creating a completely original argument based on your own evidence and experience. You should be doing lots of writing assignments in your AP class to prepare, but thoughtful, additional writing will help. You don't necessarily need to turn all of the practice writing you do into polished pieces, either—just writing for yourself, while trying to address some of these tasks, will give you a low-pressure way to try out different rhetorical structures and argumentative moves, as well as practicing things like organization and developing your own writing style. Not the most auspicious start to an argumentative essay. Finally, you'll need to practice specifically for the exam format. This was created by Essay Freelance Writers !