Synthesis: Improving College Transfer
AP readers look for a defensible thesis, accurately represented evidence, sustained commentary, and sophistication created through qualification, context, or attention to tension.
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Timed argument, synthesis, and rhetorical analysis for ACT and AP English Language.
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Rhetorical Analysis: A Farmer on Soil Conservation
AP readers reward a defensible thesis about rhetorical choices, precise textual evidence, and commentary that connects each choice to audience, occasion, and purpose. Merely listing devices does not earn analysis.
Study this model →Synthesis: Expanding an Urban Tree Canopy
AP readers look for a defensible thesis, accurately represented evidence, sustained commentary, and sophistication created through qualification, context, or attention to tension.
Study this model →Synthesis: Heat Safety in Youth Sports
AP readers look for a defensible thesis, accurately represented evidence, sustained commentary, and sophistication created through qualification, context, or attention to tension.
Study this model →Rhetorical Analysis: An Editor Defends Local News
AP readers reward a defensible thesis about rhetorical choices, precise textual evidence, and commentary that connects each choice to audience, occasion, and purpose. Merely listing devices does not earn analysis.
Study this model →Synthesis: Universal School Meals
AP readers look for a defensible thesis, accurately represented evidence, sustained commentary, and sophistication created through qualification, context, or attention to tension.
Study this model →Synthesis: Community Gardens on Vacant Lots
AP readers look for a defensible thesis, accurately represented evidence, sustained commentary, and sophistication created through qualification, context, or attention to tension.
Study this model →Rhetorical Analysis: An Astronaut Speaks to Students
AP readers reward a defensible thesis about rhetorical choices, precise textual evidence, and commentary that connects each choice to audience, occasion, and purpose. Merely listing devices does not earn analysis.
Study this model →Keeping Public Libraries Open Later
ACT readers reward a clear perspective, analysis of relationships among perspectives, relevant development, logical organization, precise language, and control of standard written English.
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