AP Language & Composition

Spring Semester Article of the Week Reading Notebook

AoW

  1. RHETORICAL SITUATION (RHS) - Individuals write within a particular situation and make strategic writing choices based on that situation.
    1. SOAPStone
  2. CLAIMS AND EVIDENCE (CLE) - Writers make claims about subjects, rely on evidence that supports the reasoning that justifies the claim, and often acknowledge or respond to other, possibly opposing, arguments.
    1. Precis
  3. REASONING AND ORGANIZATION (REO) - Writers guide understanding of a text’s lines of reasoning and claims through that text’s organization and integration of evidence.
    1. Identify notable patterns of diction and syntax and how they affect the work. Explain how these patterns have certain connotations and/or how they develop the author’s tone, persona, or appeals to ethos, logos, or pathos.
    2. For fiction, write a summary of the chapter or passage. For non-fiction note the way that the author develops his argument.
    3. For fiction, identify the key figures and explain how they are developing, changing or staying the same.
    4. Identify and explain the author’s use of symbolism.
  4. STYLE (STL) - The rhetorical situation informs the strategic stylistic choices that writers make.
    1. List the rhetorical strategies and figurative language that the author uses and explain their effect on the overall work. 
    2.  Plan to learn at least twenty-five new words as you read these books. Do this by writing the word, page number, the phrase or sentence where you found it, and an appropriate definition from a dictionary.