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Unit 6: Evidence, Bias, and Word Choice

Claims and Evidence: Reading

Judge how far a source can be trusted on a given claim, measure its bias by how it handles other positions, and spot what its evidence cannot show.

Topic 6.3 · 15 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Reliability and credibility are two questions
  2. 02Bias shows in how a source handles other positions
  3. 03Every piece of evidence has limits
  4. 04Reading an argument built from several sources
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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