From: Subject: AP Essay Writing Tips & Tutorials Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 16:50:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C90DE5.34FE6950" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C90DE5.34FE6950 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.murrayschools.org/MHS/apus/essays/default.htm AP Essay Writing Tips & Tutorials

AP U. S. History Essay Writing = Tips and=20 Tutorials

The following tutorials should help you through the = essential=20 skills necessary to craft passing AP essays. These are all short and are = focused=20 on specific skills. Carefully go through them all. Some of the skills=20 (understanding the prompt, writing a good thesis) will be useful in both = DBQs=20 and free response essays. Other skills (using the documents) are = specific to the=20 DBQ.

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Understanding Essay=20 Prompts

The Thesis Sentence

Using Documents In The DBQ

Writing Effective Free Response=20 Essays

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