This year course engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and
rhetorical contexts and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. More immediately, the course
prepares the students to perform satisfactorily on the A.P. Examination in Language and Composition given in the spring.
Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes, audience
expectations, and subjects as well as the way generic conventions and the resources of language contribute to effectiveness
in writing. Students will learn and practice the expository, analytical, and argumentative writing that forms the basis of
academic and professional writing; they will learn to read complex texts with understanding and to write prose of
sufficient richness and complexity to communicate effectively with mature readers. Readings will be selected primarily,
but not exclusively, from American writers. Students who enroll in the class will take the AP examination.
Sodium is the reducing agent because a reducing agent is always the donor of electrons.
hydrogen and helium and the most abundant elements in a nebula.
Answer:
The direct channels by which extraction can affect the economy are of particular interest. The development of mines or oil and gas fields can result in significant shocks to a regional economy, generating jobs and drawing in capital from other regions and countries.
Explanation: