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Unit 8: Style and Audience

Reasoning and Organization: Reading

Explain how a writer shapes an argument's comparisons, concessions, and order for a particular audience, and name what each sentence or paragraph does in that reasoning.

Topic 8.5 · 14 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Function means what a part does for these readers
  2. 02Comparisons and anecdotes as steps in the reasoning
  3. 03The order of an argument is a map of the audience
  4. 04Worked examples
  5. 05Where students lose points
  6. 06On the exam

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