The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to help students become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts and to become skilled writers who can compose for a variety of purposes. By their writing and reading in this course, students should become aware of the interactions among a writer's purposes, audience expectations, and subjects, as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effective writing.

Study and practice of writing with attention to audience, purpose, and conventions appropriate to writing situation; reading, writing, and analyzing a variety of texts, including written, digital, or visual.