Vocabulary and strategy for analyzing the AP Seminar Performance Task stimulus packet and identifying connections across sources. Front: the term or strategy. Back: a plain-language definition.
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- Stimulus packet
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The set of six to seven short texts, images, or data sources provided for Performance Task 1, used to spark a research question.- Synthesis
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Combining ideas or evidence from multiple sources into a single, original line of reasoning.- Thematic connection
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A shared idea or issue that links two or more stimulus sources even though the sources differ in form or origin.- Cross-textual analysis
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Comparing how different sources treat the same topic to find agreement, tension, or gaps.- Perspective
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The particular point of view, values, or interests that shape how a source presents information.- Bias identification
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Recognizing where a source's wording, selection of facts, or framing favors one side of an issue.- Context clues
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Details in a source, such as its date, author, or publication, that help explain why it was created.- Source triangulation
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Checking a claim against at least two other independent sources before treating it as reliable.- Claim mapping
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Charting each source's main claim so overlaps and disagreements between sources become visible.- Counterclaim
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A claim that opposes or complicates the writer's main argument, used to show fair consideration of other views.- Convergence of evidence
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The point where separate sources independently support the same conclusion.- Divergence of evidence
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The point where sources disagree or point toward different conclusions on the same issue.- Annotating
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Marking a text while reading to record questions, connections, and reactions for later use.- Close reading
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A careful, detailed reading of a short passage to understand its precise meaning and implications.- Central question
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The open-ended research question a team develops after analyzing the stimulus packet's shared issue.
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