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Mastering Timed Essay Writing: The Martin AP Formula for Success

Enhance your essay writing skills with Master Martin's proven formula for timed writing. This comprehensive guide breaks down the process for tackling three essays in two hours, focusing on argumentative, rhetorical, and synthesis styles. Allocate 10 minutes to understand the prompt, 10 minutes to plan, and 20 minutes to write each essay. Learn to effectively use Toulmin's model, formulate a strong thesis, and structure your arguments with clarity. Boost your confidence in essay writing with strategic planning and concise execution.

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Mastering Timed Essay Writing: The Martin AP Formula for Success

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  1. Timed Writing Formula By Master Martin

  2. AP Essays breakdown • Two hours for 3 essays • 40 minutes for each one • Three essays • Argumentative • Rhetorical Essay (3rd quarter) • Synthesis (4th quarter)

  3. How to approach each Essay • 40 minutes • 10 minutes to understand the prompt and passage • 10 minutes to plan out your essay • 20 minutes to write it

  4. Prompt and Passage – 10 minutes • First understand the prompt • What are you supposed to do in this essay? • Which of the three essays is this? • Passage • Use Toulmin’s model • Evidence / Data • Warrants / Beliefs (these can be spoken or unspoken) • Claim / Thesis • There may be more than one claim, but only one thesis • You must understand what the passage is really saying, because you have to respond to it.

  5. Review • You must understand what the passage is really saying, because you have to directly respond to the prompt.

  6. Plan your essay – 10 minutes • You cannot just jump into it. You need to plan it. • What will be your thesis? • Three ways to attack the issue: • Their data • Their warrants • Their thesis • How will you go about proving your ideas? What ideas will help prove your point? • Are you looking at both sides of the issue? • Are you only prove your point right, but not other points wrong?

  7. Review Did you prove your point? Did your point do what the prompt asked?

  8. Write it! – 20 minutes • Your introduction needs: • An engaging introduction • A preview of your main points • A thesis • Body Paragraphs • Use Claim, Data, Commentary formula • Try to • use quotes from the passage • Current events • Personal experiences that cannot be proven any other way • Conclusion • State your thesis • Sum up your points • Give a clincher

  9. Review • Read just your topic sentences • Do your paragraphs prove you claims? • Read just your thesis • Did your paper prove your thesis?

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