Comprehensive tutorials on how to write AP Language and Composition essays. Includes types (rhetorical analysis, synthesis, & argument essays) and samples.
Prompt: Many people spend long hours trying to achieve perfection in their personal or professional lives. Similarly, people often demand perfection from others, creating expectations… Read More »Sample AP Lang Argument Essay on Perfection
Prompt: Colin Powell, a four-star general and former United States secretary of state, wrote in his 1995 autobiography: “[W]e do not have the luxury of… Read More »Sample AP Lang Argument Essay on Making Decisions
Sources for this Synthesis Essay: Gillis, Carly. “Schools Debate Cursive Handwriting Instruction Nationwide.” HuffPost, 30 Mar. 2011, www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/30/cursive-handwriting-instr_n_842069.html Trubek, Anne. “Handwriting Just Doesn’t Matter.” The… Read More »Sample AP Lang Synthesis Essay: Cursive Handwriting Instruction
Sources for this Synthesis Essay: Ossola, Alexandra. “Is the U.S. Focusing Too Much on STEM?” The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2014, www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/12/is-the-us-focusing-too-much-on-stem/ 383353/ Editors. “Stem Education… Read More »Sample AP Lang Synthesis Essay: STEM Education
Prompt: On February 27, 2013, while in office, former president Barack Obama delivered the following address dedicating the Rosa Parks statue in the National Statuary… Read More »Sample AP Lang Rhetorical Analysis Essay: Obama’s Rosa Parks Statue Speech
Prompt: Born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, Sonia Sotomayor was appointed a United States Supreme Court Justice in 2009, becoming the first… Read More »Sample AP Lang Rhetorical Analysis Essay: Sotomayor’s Speech
AP Language and Composition essays are essays written as part of the Advanced Placement (AP) Language and Composition course, which is typically offered in high… Read More »Writing Successful AP Language and Composition Essays
An AP Lang (Advanced Placement Language and Composition) rhetorical analysis essay requires students to analyze the rhetorical strategies used in a given text. The purpose… Read More »Writing AP Lang Rhetorical Analysis Essay: Tips & Samples
An AP Lang synthesis essay is one of the three free-response essays that is part of the Advanced Placement (AP) Language and Composition exam administered… Read More »Writing AP Lang Synthesis Essay: Tips & Samples
An AP Language and Composition argument essay, often referred to as the “argumentative essay,” is a type of essay you may encounter on the AP… Read More »Writing AP Lang Argument Essay: Tips & Samples
