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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.

An introduction to traditional English grammar as the foundation of modern prose style, leading to the understanding of the concepts of classical Aristotelian deduction and generative rhetoric. This approach teaches the logical structure of the sentence as well as its editorial elements, such as usage, punctuation, and spelling. The structure of the sentence is used as a model for constructing paragraphs and later multi-paragraph essays in the various modes of organizational patterns of written expression. This course offers guided practice in college-level writing and critical thinking, and appropriate IT skills. Pre-requisite: ENGL 100 or equivalent. Fall, Spring.