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  2. Janet Emig - Wikipedia

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    Janet Emig (born October 12, 1928 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was an American composition scholar. She is known for her groundbreaking 1971 study The Composing Process of Twelfth Graders (National Council of Teachers of English Research Report No. 13), which contributed to the development of the process theory of composition.

  3. AP English Language and Composition - Wikipedia

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    Each essay is assigned a score from 0–6, 6 being high. The student's thesis may earn one point, their argument and evidence may earn up to four points, and an extra point may be earned for holistic complexity and sophistication of the argument or of the essay as a whole. The FRQ scoring was changed in 2019 from a 9 point holistic scale.

  4. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Expository essays are often assigned as a part of SAT and other standardized testing or as homework for high school and college students. Descriptive Determining the purpose, considering the audience, creating a dominant impression, using descriptive language, and organizing the description are the rhetorical choices to consider when using a ...

  5. Freedom of speech in schools in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Under the Fraser standard, school officials look not merely to the reasonable risk of disruption—the Tinker standard—but would also balance the freedom of a student's speech rights against the school's interest in teaching students the boundaries of socially appropriate behavior. Schools have discretion to curtail not only obscene speech ...

  6. High school in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Royal High School was used as a model for the first public high school in the United States, Boston Latin School, founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1635. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Boston Latin School was initially a private school, so although it did become the first public high school, a school system in Dedham, Massachusetts was the first to be ...

  7. Free response question - Wikipedia

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    Free response questions are a common part of assessment tests in schools, as well as being part of standardized tests [1] Essay questions are also sometimes included as part of a job interview [2] or a school application process. [3] Free response questions typically require little work for instructors to write, but can be difficult to grade ...

  8. Secondary education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Intermediate school is an uncommon term, and can either be a synonym for middle school (notably as used by the New York City public schools) or for schools that encompass the latter years of elementary education prior to middle school/junior high school, serving grades 3 or 4 through 5 or 6. These can also be called 'upper elementary' schools.

  9. Essay mill - Wikipedia

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    Some students may request to receive a high mark on a purchased essay in order to boost their grade point average (GPA), while some may deliberately order an essay that will give them a "C" in order to reduce suspicion of academic fraud. Cheaper options include detailed outlines of information to be included in essays that students write ...