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.

Prerequisites: Appropriate placement score or fulfillment of developmental writing requirements This course teaches students to write competent expository prose. It emphasizes the writing process, including prewriting, drafting and rewriting skills. Students write frequently, both in and out of class. Students also read and analyze the work of professionals and peers.