Composition and Rhetoric

How to Write an "ACE" Response 
​Though this short video describes the ACE process with slightly different language than Mr. Phillips uses in class, it may help students generate effective ACE responses.
Voice Lessons Workbook
Click the cover to open the book. We'll periodically access these exercises to practice the thinking skills that will serve your study of language in the course.
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AP TERMS Handouts & Support
The Forest of Rhetoric: Silva Rhetoricae
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​a searchable database of rhetorical terms & examples
General Composition Links
Writing an Argument about Literature (Purdue OWL)

How to Write Analogies

Visual Rhetoric and How to Improve
Visual Presentations (Purdue OWL)

Visual Rhetoric: Terms of Discourse for Reading and Writing About Images

MLA (Modern Language Association) Links

Composition & Grammar Links

The Writing Process- All of the resources in this section are from the Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab).

Types of Clauses: 
Main (Independent) & Subordinate (Dependent)
 
Mechanics: 
Sentence Clarity, Parts of Speech, Fragments,
Dangling Modifiers, Parallelism, Capitalization, & Types of Phrases

Grammar: 
Recommendations Are Classified by Parts of Speech and 
How Those Parts of Speech Interact

Punctuation: 
Commas, Apostrophes, Hyphens, Quotation Marks, &
The Patterns Associated with Punctuation