5 Steps To A 5 AP English Language, 2nd edition

Selected Bibliography

The following is a select listing of both fiction and nonfiction writers, past
and present, whose works include: essays, news articles, novels, short
stories, journals, biographies, histories, autobiographies, diaries, satire,
and political treatises. Each of these writers presents ideas in original,
thought-provoking, and enlightening ways. Our recommendation is that
you read as many and as much of them as you can. The more you read,
discuss, and/or analyze these writers and their work the better prepared
you will be for the AP English Language and Composition Exam. And,
there is another wondrous benefit. You will become much more aware
of the marvelous world of ideas that surrounds you. We invite you to
accept our invitation to this complex universe.

PERSONAL WRITING: JOURNALS, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, DIARIES

Maya Angelou Mary McCarthy
Annie Dillard Samuel Pepys
Frederick Douglas Richard Rodriguez
Lillian Hellman May Sarton
Helen Keller Richard Wright
Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X
Maxine Hong Kingston

BIOGRAPHIES AND HISTORIES

Walter Jackson Bate Winston Churchill
James Boswell Shelby Foote
Thomas Carlyle George Trevelyan
Bruce Catton Barbara Tuchman

JOURNALISTS AND ESSAYISTS

Joseph Addison Ellen Goodman
Michael Arlen Pauline Kael
Matthew Arnold Garrison Keillor
Francis Bacon John McPhee
Russell Baker N. Scott Momaday
Harold Bloom Anna Quindlen

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Marjorie Sandor
G. K. Chesterton Susan Sontag
Kenneth Clark Richard Steele
Joan Didion Henry David Thoreau
Maureen Dowd Calvin Trillin
Nora Ephron Eudora Welty
Anne Fadiman E. B. White
Paul Russell Paul Zimmer
William Hazlett
John Holt

POLITICAL WRITING AND SATIRE

Hannah Arendt John Stuart Mill
Simone de Beauvoir Sir Thomas More
W. E. B. DuBois Lincoln Steffens
William F. Buckley Jonathan Swift
Thomas Hobbes Alexis de Tocqueville
Thomas Jefferson Tom Wolfe
John Locke T. H. White
Machiavelli

WRITERS KNOWN FOR THEIR FICTION AND NONFICTION

Zora Neale Hurston George Orwell
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Virginia Woolf
Norman Mailer

NATURALISTS, SCIENTISTS, ADVENTURERS

Edward Abbey Verlyn Klinkenborg
Rachel Carson Barry Lopez
Charles Darwin Peter Matthiessen
Loren Eisley Margaret Mead
Stephen Jay Gould Carl Sagan
William Least Heat-Moon

Websites Related to the
Advanced Placement
English Language Exam
That May Be of Interest
and Importance

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34 Literally thousands of websites are, in some way, related to the study of
college-level English. We are not attempting to give you a comprehensive
5 list of all these websites. What we want to do is to provide you with a list
that is most relevant to your preparation and review for the AP English
“After I found an Language and Composition Exam. You can decide which websites may
AP chat room on be of interest and/or offer you special benefits.
the net, I felt a lot
better knowing NOTE: These websites were available and online at the time this
that there were book was revised. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee that a
other AP students site you choose to explore will be operating when you go to that
out there I could URL.
talk to and share
ideas and questions • Because this is an Advanced Placement exam you are preparing for,
with. I know I’m
not alone.” why not go to the source as your first choice: apcentral.collegeboard
—Tyler W., .com.
AP student
• Comnet: http://webster.comnet.edu/grammar is an all-purpose gram-

mar site.

• Garble: www.garbl.home.attbi.com/writing/process.htm is annotated

directory of websites that can help you during the writing process.

• Dogpile: www.dogpile.com is a good search engine that finds topics

via categories and other search engines.

• Search.com is one of the newest and BEST search engines that accesses

the biggest of the search engines available at www.search.com.

• Bowling Green University Writer’s Lab: www.bgsu.edu/offices/

acen/writerslab is chock full of information.

• Purdue On-Line Writing Lab (OWL): http://owl.english.purdue.edu is

a helpful online writing center with a huge set of links.

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• University of Missouri’s Online Writery: http://www.missouri.edu/

~writery is user-friendly with terrific graphics.

• Rensselear Polytechnic Writing Center: http://www.rpi.edu/web/writing

center offers good for advice on mechanics and style.

• Syracuse University Writing Center: http://wrt.syr.edu/thewriting

center.html is good for writing skills across the curriculum.

• A+ Research and Writing: http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/teen/aplus is a

comprehensive guide to writing research papers.

• University of Michigan’s Sweetland Writing Center: www.lsa.umich

.edu/swc/help/help.html is user-friendly and quite comprehensive.

• A portal site for links to the best of library and research sites in three

sections: libraries (academic, film, government, and so forth), refer-
ence desk (almanacs, biographies, dictionaries, and so forth), and
reading room (books, journals, newspapers, magazines) is available at
www.libraryspot.com.

• www.americanrhetoric.com has political speeches and speeches from

movies.

• For annotating texts, see http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/

ELA/612/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/reading%20strategies%20
index.htm.

Each of these websites will lead you to many more. Take the time to
explore the various sites and make your own evaluations about their
value to you. You might even decide to set up your own AP Language
website, or chat room!

About the Authors

Barbara L. Murphy taught AP Language and other college-level courses
at Jericho High School for more than 26 years. She has been a reader of
the AP Language and Composition exam since 1993 and is a consultant
for the College Board’s AP Language and Composition, for which she has
conducted workshops, conferences, and Summer Institutes. She is cur-
rently on the faculty of Syracuse University’s Project Advance in English.

After earning her B.A. from Duquesne University and her M.A. from
the University of Pittsburgh, Ms. Murphy did her doctoral course work
at Columbia University. She also holds professional certifications in still
photography and motion picture production and is one of the founding
members of the women’s film company Ishtar Films.

Estelle M. Rankin taught AP Literature at Jericho High School for more
than 25 years. She was honored with the AP Literature Teacher of the
Year award by the College Board in 1996. She also received the Long
Island Teacher of the Year award in 1990. She was the recipient of the
Cornell University Presidential Scholars’ Award and has been recognized
by the C.W. Post Master Teachers Program.

Ms. Rankin earned her B.A. from Adelphi University and her M.A.
from Hofstra University. She has pursued further graduate work in the
field of creative studies at Queens College and Brooklyn College.

She has done extensive work in the research and development of film,
drama, and creative writing curriculum, SAT prep, and the new NYS
Regents benchmarks for English, and has participated in numerous AP
Literature conferences and workshops. Ms. Rankin is currently a College
Board consultant for pre-AP and AP English.

Ms. Murphy and Ms. Rankin are also the coauthors of McGraw-Hill’s
5 Steps to a 5: AP English Literature, Writing the AP English Essay, and
Writing an Outstanding College Application Essay.

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