Workshop participants will learn how to improve thier students' research skills to synthesize, evaluate, cite and utilize source material. Learn strategies that will enable students to write effectively in their college courses across the curriculum and in their professional and personal lives. Experienced and beginning AP* teachers will become familiar with techniques to help students learn to write and read with increasing complexity and sophistication. Focus areas will include enhancing students' ability to:

• do close reading in an era where vsual literacy has replaced verbal literacy
• develop argumentative essays with an inclusive rhetorical stance
• prepare for the new synthesis question in the AP* exam
• understand and converse about "rhetorical strategies" as they apply to the written document and oral discussion
• "enter the conversation" in the world of rhetorical discourse to quote Chief Reader David Jolliffe
• grasp the nature and value of studying "reductive" objective questions as part of the AP* exam

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Instructor

Dr. Stephen B. Heller

Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, IL

Dr. Stephen Heller teaches AP* Language and Composition, College Preparatory and Accelerated English at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. Heller worked to implement the S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) initiative in his school district. Dr. Heller has been an AP* Reader and Table Leader since 2002. Heller previously worked at the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University in Evanston. Dr. Heller received his B.A. from Northwestern, M.A. from the University of Illinois-Chicago and Ph.D. from Loyola University in Chicago.