Response to Course Material -- Week 1, Sept 9th

Response to Course Material Week 1, September 9th 

The prezis I took notes on were filled with good ideas on reaching your audience so that your writing accomplishes something.  This got me thinking of the audience I will have come May when I'm taking the AP test.  The audience will all be very knowledgeable when it comes to literature and English, will have read many, many, other students' writing, and will be comparing what I say and do to the other students.  

So to please this audience, the tips in Essay Writing Basics are all beyond useful.  It's important to keep in mind the "Speaker/Persona; What kind of person do you want to seem like?"  And while I first thought it was silly to mention, "answer the prompt!" certainly has its uses too.   A summary of the facts is not good enough, but going deeper and asking WHY and HOW sets the good AP-student apart, and that is something I need to remember.  Quoting evidence, even while the audience has read the selections close to a million times, is key to a good grade.  The terms MUST be said and in the correct ways, to show those judges I know what I'm talking about.  And the essay must be persuasive, which leads into what The Rhetorical Situation was talking about. To be persuasive, your argument should be logically organized. It seems like I've understood the need of a strong intro, body, and conclusion since the 3rd grade, and for the AP test that's no exception.  This foreseen "act of communication" must communicate what I want it to in May, and it's never to early to begin thinking about it!