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Recommended Essays and Texts for AP English Language
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by Bernard Phelan
Barrington Community High School
Barrington, Illinois
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Argument
"On Self-Respect" by Joan Didion
"Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility" by Sissela Bok
"Future Schlock" by Neil Postman
"Why Blame T.V." by John Leonard
"Save the Whales, Screw the Shrimp" by Joy Williams
from "The End of Nature" by Bill McKibbin
"Is Business Bluffing Ethical?" by Albert Carr
"Pornography" by Margaret Atwood
"A Proposal to Abolish Grading" by Paul Goodman
"Why Not a Football Degree?" by William F. Shurhart II
Style: Schemes and Tropes
"Marrying Absurd" by Joan Didion
"I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady
"Assorted Speeches" by Spiro Agnew
"Guys vs. Men" by Dave Barry
"Gettysburg Address" by Abraham Lincoln
"Nobel Prize Award Speech" by William Faulkner
"A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid
Rhetorical Analysis
"An End to Audience" by Margaret Atwood
"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
"What High School Is" by Ted Sizer
"Killing Me Microsoftly" by Julia Keller
"Distancing the Homeless" by Jonathon Kozol
"A Vindication of the Rights of Women" by Mary Wollstonecraft
Textbooks
Barnet, Sylvan and Hugo Bedau. Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument with Readings. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1999.
Corbett, Edward and Robert Connors. Style and Statement. Oxford, 1999.
Kennedy, X. J., Dorothy Kennedy, and Jane Aaron. The Bedford Reader. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1997.
Kollin, Martha. Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects. Boston: Allyn Bacon, 1999.
Lunsford, Andrea and John Ruczkiewicz. Everything's an Argument. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1999.
Trail, George. Rhetorical Terms and Concepts: A Contemporary Glossary. Forth Worth: Harcourt Brace, 2000.
Anthologies and Textbooks Currently Reviewed in AP Central's Teachers' Resources Catalog
Search for Resource Reviews
A Forest of Voices: Conversations in Ecology, 2nd ed.
A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966
A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers, 6th ed.
A Writer's Reader, 9th ed.
Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, 2nd ed.
Asking the Right Questions
Best American Essays
Building Bridges: The Allyn & Bacon Student Guide to Service-Learning
Classic American Autobiographies
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
Connections: Reading and Writing in Cultural Contexts, 3rd ed.
Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth
Crafting Expository Argument: Practical Approaches to the Writing Process for Students & Teachers, 3rd ed.
Cultural Attractions/Cultural Distractions: Critical Literacy in Contemporary Times
Discovering Arguments: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Writing with Readings
Essays and Arguments: A Handbook on Writing Argumentative and Interpretative Essays
Essays from Contemporary Culture, 4th ed.
Everything's an Argument, 2nd ed.
Exploring Language, 9th ed.
Fieldworking Reading and Writing Research
Good Reasons, with Contemporary Arguments
Interactions: A Thematic Reader, 4th ed.
Language Matters: Readings for College Writers
Learning Dynamics Streamlines: Selected Readings on Single Topics
Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters
Life Studies: An Analytic Reader, 7th ed.
Many Voices: A Multicultural Reader
One World, Many Cultures
Our Times: Readings from Recent Periodicals
Patterns of Reflection: A Reader, 4th ed.
Plato's Heirs: Classic Essays
Prose Models
Purpose and Process: A Reader for Writers
Reading Rhetorically: A Reader for Writers
Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing
Rhetoric for a Multicultural America
Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects, 3rd ed.
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
Short Takes, 7th ed.
Sundance Writer: A Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook
Telling Writing
The Annie Dillard Reader
The Bedford Reader, 7th ed.
The Essay Connection: Readings for Writers, 6th ed.
The Familiar Essay
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed.
The Norton Book of American Autobiography
The Norton Reader, 10th ed.
The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition, 5th ed.
The Oxford Book of Essays
The Riverside Reader
The Shape of Reason: Argumentative Writing in College, 3rd ed.
The Simon and Schuster Short Prose Reader
The Structure of Argument
The Transition to College Writing
The Vietnam Reader
The Writer's Options: Lessons in Style and Arrangement, 6th ed.
The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings
Understanding Style: Practical Ways to Improve Your Writing
Understanding Writing Blocks
Understanding Written Grammar
Write to Learn, 6th ed.
Writers' Choices: Grammar to Improve Style
Writing: A Concise Handbook
Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings, 5th ed.
Writing As Reflective Action
Writing Choices: Shaping Contexts for Critical Readers
Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process Book Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing, 2nd ed.
Bernard Phelan is an AP teacher in the Chicago suburbs, and serves as an AP Table Leader and an SAT II Reader. Bernie served on the test committee for the SAT II for six years, and is currently on the writing committee for the new SAT. He also contributed to the making of the English Language APCD. Bernie consults for the College Board and teaches at AP Summer Institutes in Chicago and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the College Board.
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