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AP 11: English Language and Composition
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The original handouts are copyright ©2000-2008 by Rolf M. Gunnar unless otherwise noted. Educators, please feel free to use any of these handouts. Send comments to the e-mail address on my home page. Click on the title of the assignment in the menu on the left side of the page to see the handout. Links to the class expectations, The Language of Composition (a course text), an extensive web site covering the study of rhetoric, a web site explaining the differences between college and high school writing, and a glossary of grammar terms are found below. Primary Learning Goals of AP 11: AP English Language and Composition is a college-level course examining rhetoric as “the art of analyzing all the choices that a writer, speaker, reader or listener might make in situation so that the text becomes meaningful, purposeful, and effective; the specific features of texts written or spoken, that cause them to be meaningful, purposeful and effective for reader or listeners in a situation” (Rothskelly and Jolliffe 243). Students will become mature and sophisticated consumers and creators of a variety of texts. Therefore, by the end of the course students will understand: - what they read: the main point or thesis, the occasion or context, the author’s motivation for writing, the tone and style;
- how a text is created to develop meaning and purpose including genre, organization, paragraphing, syntax;
- the relationship of the text’s creation to its accomplishment, the purpose of academic intellectual prose, its meaning and effect;
- how to articulate their analysis of what they read; how the organizational structure, diction, syntax, imagery, figurative language flesh out the meaning of a text;
- how to create, develop and support an argument, acknowledging the complexities and nuances of important issues that adults argue about in contemporary intellectual circles;
- how to become good citizens through awareness of public discourse issues
- how to enter into a conversation with sources and develop a thesis and argument or exposition by synthesizing these conversations into their own writing;
- how to analyze and incorporate their analysis of visual texts into their writing;
- effective research skills and proper MLA citation;
- how to read a question, so they know exactly what and how to approach it;
- how to enhance their vocabulary as a means to effective writing; how to grapple with archaic prose
- strategies necessary for success on the AP English Language and Composition exam
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The Study of Rhetoric
This is an extensive web site focusing on the art of rhetoric including a glossary.
College vs. High School Writing
Click here to discover many of the expectations of college composition courses, many of the expectations you are expected to meet in AP English Language and Composition.
The Language of Composition
Click here for the companion web site to "The Language of Composition."
The Norton Reader
Click here for the companion site to "The Norton Reader."
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