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Unit 9: Entering the Conversation

Rhetorical Situation: Writing

Join an ongoing debate in your own writing: map the positions already taken, decide which ones your reader needs answered, and open by placing your claim among them.

Topic 9.2 · 13 min read

This lesson comes with the AP English Language and Composition plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Map the conversation before you choose a side
  2. 02Decide which voices your reader brings into the room
  3. 03Step in where the conversation is
  4. 04Worked examples
  5. 05Where students lose points
  6. 06On the exam

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