Mary Kim’s AP Blog:]

Good
- Understand
- Read ALL sources
- Contextualize for the intro.
- Synthesize
- Multipule sources in the same paragraph
- Answer the “so what” of the issue to conclude
- READ THE DIRECTIONS!

Bad
- Writing in 1st person
- Stretching connections between citing and thesis
- Summarizing
- Summarizing without CM
- Answering part of OR a less complex version of the question
- Answering a different ot wandering a way from the question
- If it says at least 3 sources, using less than 3