Help a Struggling Writer to Succeed: Simple Instructions for Sophisticated Paragraphs

Learn terminology and templates that you can teach your students to improve paragraph planning and essay outlining. This session will provide introduction and conclusion options, line of reasoning approaches, and practical strategies for incorporating corresponding, contradicting, and supplementing sources. Practice the authors’ dinner party activity with a College Board synthesis question source packet. Applicable to any kind of writing course, these methods of development can be especially effective for building confidence in AP Language and Composition students! Sample outlines and exemplar paragraphs will be available that you can use with middle school, high school, and first year comp students.