AUTHOR MOVES
Using numbers, studies, or percentages to build credibility.
What is statistics/data?
This Part A question asks students to identify the author’s main claim.
What is Question 1?
This is the term for the central topic connecting all four sources.
What is the theme?
This word should usually appear in your thesis statement.
What is “should”?
Mr. Ocampo’s DJ name.
Who is DJ Manny Fresco?
A story or personal example used to connect emotionally with readers.
What is an anecdote?
This question focuses on line of reasoning.
What is Part A Question 2?
This is an argument or solution NOT directly stated in the sources.
What is an original argument?
This is the minimum number of sources needed in Part B.
What is 2?
Despite the stress, deadlines, and Turnitin panic, this percentage of students still earned passing AP Seminar scores last year.
What is 35%?
This rhetorical appeal focuses on credibility or trustworthiness.
What is ethos?
In Question 3, students should evaluate the effectiveness of the argument by ranking the author’s evidence and reasoning using these three levels.
What are high, medium, and low effectiveness?
This is the reasoning that connects evidence back to the claim.
What is commentary?
These are the first steps students should take before writing their Part B essay.
What are identifying the theme, problem, and original solution?
This is the city and state where Mr. Ocampo attended Dickinson College for his undergraduate degree.
Where is Carlisle, Pennsylvania?
This research skill requires writers to give credit to their evidence and identify where information came from throughout the argument.
What is attributing and citing sources consistently?
This is the relationship between the evidence and the author’s claim.
What is relevance?
The process of combining ideas from multiple sources into one argument.
What is synthesis?
This writing structure introduces evidence, includes the quote, and explains why the evidence matters.
What is a quotation sandwich?
This Mexican state is where Mr. Ocampo’s family roots trace back to.
Where is Jalisco?
In strong arguments, authors often respond to these to show complexity and strengthen their reasoning.
What are limitations/counterarguments?
This Part A skill asks students to judge whether the author’s evidence is convincing, credible, and relevant to the argument.
What is evaluating the evidence and relevance?
The overall progression of how an author builds their argument.
What is line of reasoning?
This should come BEFORE evidence in your essay body paragraph.
What is a claim/topic sentence?
As of this school year, this is how long Mr. Ocampo has been married.
What is 4 years?