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Students focus on the development and revision of evidence-based analytic and argumentative writing, the rhetorical analysis of nonfiction texts, and the decisions writers make as they compose and revise. Students evaluate, synthesize, and cite research to support their arguments. Additionally, they read and analyze rhetorical elements and their effects in nonfiction texts—including images as forms of text—from a range of disciplines and historical periods. This course cultivates the reading and writing skills that students need for college success and for intellectually responsible civic engagement. The course guides students in becoming curious, critical, and responsive readers of diverse texts and becoming flexible, reflective writers of texts addressed to diverse audiences for diverse purposes. Reading and writing expectations in this course aim to deepen and expand students’ understanding of how written language functions rhetorically: to communicate writers’ intentions and elicit readers’ responses in particular situations. As a result of the increased rigor of this AP course, students read more texts than the regular and honors courses and instruction is delivered at the fastest pace. Students should be able to read and comprehend college-level texts and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.