ap language and composition readings

Reading #1

I Want A Wife

As you read, consider persona, audience, and exigency.

Reading #2

The Box Man and A Smoker

Adding more rhetorical methods and noting description and classification.

Reading #3

Lost In The Kitchen

Consider the usage of humor and emphasis.

Reading #4

I Am A...

An exemplary single word definition.

Reading #5

On WWII

Shifts from abstract to concrete, among others.

Reading #6

The Ways We Lie

Consider the structure in large form and in each paragraph.

Reading #7

Learning to Read and Write

For this dated document, note the use of contrast.

Reading #8

Self Reliance 1-6

For this dated document, note the sentence structuring... amongst other things. .

Reading #9

Some Declarations of Independence

When in the course of reading good writing...

Reading #10

A Modest Proposal

For this dated document, note the use of persona... amongst other things.

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Reading #11

Deadline Artists

A small collection of the best columns (see book of same title).

Reading #12

Some Articles

A few articles to begin our understanding of argumentation.

Reading #13

Pen and Ink?

Diffucult text about a "deep" subject. Password, please.

Reading #14

TV is a Drug

Is television as addicting as, say, fast food?

Reading #15

Success is Failure?

Must you encounter failure to truly succeed?

Reading #16

16 April 1963

Dr. King's argument about protest methodology. Note sentence length.

Reading #17

Women's Brains

Controversial? Source based? Sounds like synthesis.

Reading #18

Double Standard?

An argument about arguments. I know that you know that I know, but do you know...

Reading #19

Hemingway Short Stories

Your introduction to the Code Hero and literary layers.

Reading #20

Hemingway Non-Fiction

A clinical description of bull.

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