AP Writing Important words found in essay questions by OTHER AP teacher
IMPORTANT WORDS FOUND IN ESSAY QUESTIONS
Analyze: Divide a complex whole into its component parts and examine these parts to determine how the parts contribute to the whole. Identify the components, examine them, determine relationships among them, eliminate irrelevant information, and explain how the parts contribute to the whole. Details in the essay should work toward proving your thesis and should relate back to your thesis. DO NOT NARRATE or laundry list information.
Narration - George Washington was a great American president. Analysis - George Washington’s appointment of some of the finest minds in the U.S. to his first cabinet insured his place in history as one of the greatest presidents.
Analyze the reasons for the emergence of the Populist Party in the late nineteenth century.
Assess the Examine the complex statement and decide whether or not it is true. Decide validity: whether the statement is totally true, totally false, or somewhere in between. If you take the middle of the road approach you need to discuss valid points on both sides. Rephrase the statement and include your argument in the thesis paragraph
“Puritanism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction.” Assess the validity of this statement.
Compare & 1)Look for qualities or characteristics that resemble each other. Emphasize Contrast similarities among them. 2)Stress the dissimilarities and differences of things, qualities, events or problems.
Compare and contrast the attitudes of three of the following toward the wealth that was created in the U.S. during the late nineteenth century. Andrew Carnegie, Eugene V. Debs, Horatio Alger, Booker T. Washington, Ida Tarbell.
Define: Give concise, clear, and authoritative meanings. Don’t give more than one example to support your definition.
Describe: Recount, characterize, sketch, or relate in sequence or story form.
Describe 3 of the
Analyze: Divide a complex whole into its component parts and examine these parts to determine how the parts contribute to the whole. Identify the components, examine them, determine relationships among them, eliminate irrelevant information, and explain how the parts contribute to the whole. Details in the essay should work toward proving your thesis and should relate back to your thesis. DO NOT NARRATE or laundry list information.
Narration - George Washington was a great American president. Analysis - George Washington’s appointment of some of the finest minds in the U.S. to his first cabinet insured his place in history as one of the greatest presidents.
Analyze the reasons for the emergence of the Populist Party in the late nineteenth century.
Assess the Examine the complex statement and decide whether or not it is true. Decide validity: whether the statement is totally true, totally false, or somewhere in between. If you take the middle of the road approach you need to discuss valid points on both sides. Rephrase the statement and include your argument in the thesis paragraph
“Puritanism bore within itself the seeds of its own destruction.” Assess the validity of this statement.
Compare & 1)Look for qualities or characteristics that resemble each other. Emphasize Contrast similarities among them. 2)Stress the dissimilarities and differences of things, qualities, events or problems.
Compare and contrast the attitudes of three of the following toward the wealth that was created in the U.S. during the late nineteenth century. Andrew Carnegie, Eugene V. Debs, Horatio Alger, Booker T. Washington, Ida Tarbell.
Define: Give concise, clear, and authoritative meanings. Don’t give more than one example to support your definition.
Describe: Recount, characterize, sketch, or relate in sequence or story form.
Describe 3 of the