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✍🏽AP English Language
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In an argumentative essay, how would a writer's use of assertive language most likely affect the tone?

It confuses the audience due to a lack of clear stance or position.

It distracts readers from the main points with overly complex vocabulary.

It undermines the credibility of the argument by being too aggressive.

It makes the argument appear more confident and persuasive.

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How to Annotate Effectively - Slides

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Stephanie Kirk



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In this video, we look at a few ways to start annotating or refine annotating of texts and the AP prompt itself. Our learning goal is that through the study of annotation techniques, we will be able to effectively annotate a variety of texts to prepare for the analysis of the text and to build an argument related to the given text. Included in this stream is the intentional annotation of the prompt given for the exam's free response questions.