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Unit 5: Organization, Transitions, and Tone

Reasoning and Organization: Reading

Trace how body paragraphs, transitions, repeated words, pronouns and parallel structure hold an argument together, and judge whether its reasoning reaches the thesis.

Topic 5.5 · 15 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Each body paragraph is one step
  2. 02Coherence at three scales
  3. 03The threads that tie a text together
  4. 04Transitional elements, from one word to a whole paragraph
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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