The Course
Course Overview:
Advanced Placement Language and Composition is an introductory college-level course. The course overview and objectives for the course are taken from the AP English Course Description published by the College Board. The stated purpose of this course is to help students become “skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and 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 genre conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing. ” This course will provide students with the opportunity to write effectively in college across all curriculums and in their professional and personal lives.
Featured authors within this course include (but are not limited to): Harper Lee, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Baldwin, Malcolm Gladwell, Jane Austin, Richard Nixon, Jonathon Swift, Charles Darwin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, W.E.B DuBois, Maya Angelou, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr., Charlotte Bronte, Andrew Carnegie, Virginia Wolfe, and George Orwell.
Required Course Materials:
Upon completing this course students will be able to:
Advanced Placement Language and Composition is an introductory college-level course. The course overview and objectives for the course are taken from the AP English Course Description published by the College Board. The stated purpose of this course is to help students become “skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts and 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 genre conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness in writing. ” This course will provide students with the opportunity to write effectively in college across all curriculums and in their professional and personal lives.
Featured authors within this course include (but are not limited to): Harper Lee, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Oscar Wilde, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Baldwin, Malcolm Gladwell, Jane Austin, Richard Nixon, Jonathon Swift, Charles Darwin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, W.E.B DuBois, Maya Angelou, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr., Charlotte Bronte, Andrew Carnegie, Virginia Wolfe, and George Orwell.
Required Course Materials:
- The Language of Composition: Reading, Writing, Rhetoric
- Rhetorical Devices: A Handbook and Activities for Student Writers
- Netbook daily
- Current book – reading/literature circles
- Printed version of current essay (if needed)
Upon completing this course students will be able to:
- Analyze and interpret samples of good writing, identifying and explaining an author’s use of rhetorical strategies and techniques.
- Apply effective strategies and techniques in their own writing.
- Create and sustain arguments based on readings, research, and/or personal experience.
- Write for a variety of purposes.
- Produce expository, analytical, and argumentative compositions that introduce a complex central idea and develop it with appropriate evidence drawn from primary and/or secondary sources, cogent explanations and clear transitions.
- Demonstrate understanding and mastery of standard written English as well as stylistic maturity in their own writing.
- Demonstrate understanding of the conventions of citing primary and secondary sources.
- Move effectively through stages of the writing process, with careful attention to inquiry and research, drafting, revising, editing, and review.
- Write thoughtfully about the process of composition.
- Revise a work to make it suitable for a different audience.
- Analyze image as text.
- Evaluate and incorporate reference documents into research papers.