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We're surrounded by persuasive writing every day, in speeches, op-eds, advertisements, and journalism. AP English Language and Composition trains students to read this writing the way its authors built it: strategically.
The AP English Language and Composition Exam is scheduled for Wednesday, May 12, 2027 (Session 1), per the College Board's official 2027 exam schedule.
Here's a full breakdown of the course, the exam, and what students walk away with.
About the Course of AP English Language and Composition
In AP English Language and Composition, students read nonfiction texts through the eyes of a writer, examining the choices authors and speakers make to persuade their audience. By studying how writing is composed, students learn to construct their own evidence-based, persuasive pieces. There are no recommended prerequisites, so any student ready to sharpen their analytical and argumentative writing can take it on.
Skills You'll Learn
- Reading closely, analyzing, and interpreting nonfiction texts
- Evaluating the credibility and relevance of a source
- Gathering and consolidating information from multiple sources
- Writing an evidence-based argument
- Drafting and revising a piece of writing
Course Content
The course runs across nine units that build progressively, from identifying claims and evidence in a text, to constructing an argument with a clear line of reasoning, to weighing multiple perspectives and handling counterarguments with nuance. By the final units, students are making deliberate stylistic choices (word choice, syntax, tone) to sharpen how their own arguments land with an audience.
| Units | Components Covered |
Unit 1
| • 1.A Identify and describe components of the rhetorical situation: the exigence, audience, writer, purpose, context, and message.
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Unit 2
| • 1.B Explain how an argument demonstrates understanding of an audience's beliefs, values, or needs. • 2.B Demonstrate an understanding of an audience's beliefs, values, or needs. • 3.A Identify and explain claims and evidence within an argument. • 4.A Develop a paragraph that includes a claim and evidence supporting the claim. • 3.B Identify and describe the overarching thesis of an argument, and any indication it provides of the argument's structure. • 4.B Write a thesis statement that requires proof or defense and that may preview the structure of the argument. |
Unit 3
| • 3.A Identify and explain claims and evidence within an argument. • 4.A Develop a paragraph that includes a claim and evidence supporting the claim. • 5.A Describe the line of reasoning and explain whether it supports an argument's overarching thesis. • 6.A Develop a line of reasoning and commentary that explains it throughout an argument. • 5.C Recognize and explain the use of methods of development to accomplish a purpose. • 6.C Use appropriate methods of development to advance an argument. |
Unit 4
| • 1.A Identify and describe components of the rhetorical situation: the exigence, audience, writer, purpose, context, and message. • 2.A Write introductions and conclusions appropriate to the purpose and context of the rhetorical situation. • 3.B Identify and describe the overarching thesis of an argument, and any indication it provides of the argument's structure. • 4.B Write a thesis statement that requires proof or defense and that may preview the structure of the argument. • 5.C Recognize and explain the use of methods of development to accomplish a purpose. • 6.C Use appropriate methods of development to advance an argument. |
Unit 5
| • 5.A Describe the line of reasoning and explain whether it supports an argument's overarching thesis. • 6.A Develop a line of reasoning and commentary that explains it throughout an argument. • 5.B Explain how the organization of a text creates unity and coherence and reflects a line of reasoning. • 6.B Use transitional elements to guide the reader through the line of reasoning of an argument. • 7.A Explain how word choice, comparisons, and syntax contribute to the specific tone or style of a text. • 8.A Strategically use words, comparisons, and syntax to convey a specific tone or style in an argument. |
Unit 6
| • 3.A Identify and explain claims and evidence within an argument. • 4.A Develop a paragraph that includes a claim and evidence supporting the claim. • 3.B Identify and describe the overarching thesis of an argument, and any indication it provides of the argument's structure. • 7.A Explain how word choice, comparisons, and syntax contribute to the specific tone or style of a text. • 8.A Strategically use words, comparisons, and syntax to convey a specific tone or style in an argument. |
Unit 7
| • 1.A Identify and describe components of the rhetorical situation: the exigence, audience, writer, purpose, context, and message. • 2.A Write introductions and conclusions appropriate to the purpose and context of the rhetorical situation. • 3.C Explain ways claims are qualified through modifiers, counterarguments, and alternative perspectives. • 4.C Qualify a claim using modifiers, counterarguments, or alternative perspectives. • 8.B Write sentences that clearly convey ideas and arguments. • 7.C Explain how grammar and mechanics contribute to the clarity and effectiveness of an argument. • 8.C Use established conventions of grammar and mechanics to communicate clearly and effectively. |
Unit 8
| • 1.B Explain how an argument demonstrates understanding of an audience's beliefs, values, or needs. • 2.B Demonstrate an understanding of an audience's beliefs, values, or needs. • 7.A Explain how word choice, comparisons, and syntax contribute to the specific tone or style of a text. • 8.A Strategically use words, comparisons, and syntax to convey a specific tone or style in an argument. • 7.B Explain how writers create, combine, and place independent and dependent clauses to show relationships between and among ideas. • 8.B Write sentences that clearly convey ideas and arguments. |
| Unit 9 | • 3.C Explain ways claims are qualified through modifiers, counterarguments, and alternative perspectives. • 4.C Qualify a claim using modifiers, counterarguments, or alternative perspectives. |
Exam Format
Section I: Multiple Choice
It consists of 45 Questions to be done in 1 Hour. Carries 45% of Exam Score.
5 sets of questions: 23–25 Reading questions on analyzing nonfiction texts, and 20–22 Writing questions that ask students to "read like a writer" and consider revisions to a stimulus text.
Section II: Free Response
It consists of 3 Questions with a time limit of 2 Hours 15 Minutes (includes a 15-minute reading period). It carries 55% of Exam Score.
Students respond to three prompts:
- Synthesis Question: Read 6 sources on a topic and build an argument citing at least 3 of them.
- Rhetorical Analysis: Analyze how a writer's language choices shape a nonfiction text's meaning and purpose.
- Argument: Construct an evidence-based argument responding to a given topic.
The exam is fully digital, taken through the Bluebook app.
Why Take AP English Language and Composition?
This course builds rhetorical and argumentative skills that carry directly into careers in journalism, law, communications, marketing, and public policy, essentially any field where persuasive, well-supported writing matters. It also gives students a head start on college-level composition and rhetoric coursework.
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