Back to the Lake

The perfect balance of readings and writing instruction for the AP® Language and Composition course

This reader and writing guide supports AP® Language and Composition students using engaging essays and practical writing instruction. Back to the Lake helps students understand rhetorical situations, develop claims, guide arguments with clear organization, and make strategic stylistic choices. The book presents reading and writing strategies together using marginal annotations to show the connections. Readings―arranged by method of development and written by classic, contemporary, and student writers–are balanced with writing advice.



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