Equivalency Details

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.

This course is designed for students to learn rhetorical terminology and concepts to describe and practice writing for a variety of audiences, genres and technologies. Students will develop their own writing process for drafting, evaluating, revising and editing their work. This course emphasizes critical reading of college---level texts and the development of information literacy skills. These skills include reading, summarizing and evaluating sources for relevance and reliability (information literacy). Students will develop knowledge of and practice the fundamentals of grammar, punctuation, sentence and paragraph structures and will develop an understanding of the fundamentals of MLA and APA documentation style and formatting. Students who successfully complete this course will be prepared to take SKW102 Foundations of Writing II