AP Language Course Description
AP English Language and Composition serves as a solid foundation for effective college-level writing with applications in all subject areas. The course teaches students how to write narrative, expository, analytical, and argumentative essays on a variety of subjects. Students read and analyze historic and contemporary works of non-fiction to increase their own awareness of writing styles and techniques. Students benefit from advanced writing instruction that emphasizes revision and feedback from the instructor and their peers and from research opportunities designed to foster the analysis and synthesis of information from a variety of sources. Students learn to employ varied vocabulary and sentence structure, to organize ideas logically, to balance generalization and specifics, to effectively use rhetoric, and to cite sources in accepted formats.