<p>the prompt was to address the “key issues” and mention the “implications” for starting the movement (exact words, i remember)</p>
<p>when i was writing this i saw key issues and implications as almost interchangeable.</p>
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That’s where I messed up. I thought it meant to address the cons (key issues) and general effects, including pros (community implications)… so I essentially wrote about the problems with the movement in one paragraph and then the local effects (mainly from the laundry-list source… if you know what I mean), some of which were good, in a second paragraph. Not sure if this is considered off topic or anything of the like.</p>
<p>i dont think so cause i wrote about local effects and that deals with the community implication part and then i wrote about issues that documents brought about.</p>
<p>I tried to remain neutral on the synthesis (my friend said that the prompt even said to do so), but does it count as taking a side if I said that ___ is an important factor, brought up one side’s opinion on it and then used another source to refute that argument?</p>
<p>My teacher told us you must always take a side on the synthesis so I did… I really hope that’s okay. I pretty much just weighed the cons…</p>
<p>I have a feeling this essay is going to destroy some people’s scores…</p>
<p>Okay obviously taking a position will not hurt your score, it still answers the question. You can use only three sources and still get a perfect score and please do not forget quality over quantity. Thanks.</p>
<p>to answer everyone’s question about taking a position, i just took a look at an essay written last year by someone for the 2010 exam. the prompt said nothing about taking a stance, yet he still got an 8. </p>
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<p>p.s he clearly states that the negatives outweighs the benefits which if you talked about like i did you should be fine</p>
<p>It seems as if the essay wanted us to take a side, even if we don’t blatantly say “Locawhatevers are good” or “They’re bad.” I mean, how to you evaluate the issues/implications without passing some sort of judgment on the movement itself?</p>
<p>What did the essay ask again? To address key issues and implications? </p>
<p>I pretty much stated negative implications…</p>
<p>My worst essay, I feel, was the last one…BS BS BS BS BS BS BS. </p>
<p>Anyone know how scoring works? </p>
<p>I think one source said to, for an estimate:
(#correct<em>67.5)/#questions = MC raw
Sum of essays</em>3.055 = FRQ raw</p>
<p>110-150 = 5
I don’t know the other ranges. ANYWAYS anyone know if the scoring is SET? Or is it on a curve based on how people performed?</p>
<p>My teacher told us to take a side UNLESS IT SPECIFICALLY SAID NOT TO (though I assume if it doesn’t say specifically to take a side and you remained neutral you might be okay I guess.) We did a practice from a few years ago and I took a side and got an 8. An unbiased essay is pointless usually under these circumstances because this is a test of rhetorical writing skill. One main goal of writing an effective rhetorical piece is having a CLEAR argument and successfully persuading the reader of it. Now, that doesn’t necessarily mean taking a pro/con approach to a situation, but in this case, that seemed to be the only “argument” one could make regarding the synthesis prompt. “Key issues and implications” do not an argument make unless somewhere in your piece you have a thesis that indicates exactly what it is you are trying to prove using rhetoric.</p>
<p>As for everyone saying it was “very possible to misinterpret” the synthesis, what do you mean? Because now you’ve made me concerned that perhaps I may have misinterpreted it…?</p>
<p>I think that taking a side for this prompt was perfectly fine as long as you acknowledged both sides of the argument, and talked about the “effects it has on the community” or whatever the second part of the prompt was.</p>
<p>my teacher said that you should always take a side for synthesis essays, however i forgot to do so in this essay and now im worried :/</p>
<p>oh no. will i get a 2 if i didn’t establish an argument for the synthesis essay? I just said three key points and talked about the pro and con side of each side. WILL I GET A 2??? help!!</p>
<p>Well for me-
I thought the MC was medium, but I have not done much mc in my class in the past.
FRQ 1- I took into knowledge both the positive and negative benefits, but I took a side still (with the cons). Kinda worried now, but otherwise I loved this essay
FRQ 2- Loved this, easy to analyze 
FRQ 3- My worst of the 3, did not have much solid evidence
Overall, easy test (:</p>
<p>I’m just curious, what was the name of the class you guys took for this at your schools?</p>
<p>Even though the test is the AP English & Composition test, our class isn’t called that. For us, it’s called AP Writing Workshop, so the entire year is spent learning what makes an effective piece of rhetoric and then using that to create our own rhetorical essays. It came in handy so much for the AP test, because a year of rhetoric let us see this test for what it is truly meant to test: knowledge and identification of rhetorical strategy and application of it. But I can see how taking the class under a different name/purpose could give someone a whole other view/approach toward it.</p>
<p>So, if I only stated the negative effects am I screwed?</p>
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Classic name: AP English Language and Composition.</p>
<p>Dang it! I didn’t really take a side in the synthesis essay…I am not going to get a good score…maybe a 5…</p>