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| The list below represents examples of textbooks that meet the curricular requirements of AP English Language and Composition. The list below is not exhaustive and the texts listed should not be regarded as endorsed, authorized, recommended, or approved by the College Board. Not using a book from this list does not mean that a course will not receive authorization. Syllabi submitted as part of the AP Course Audit process will be evaluated holistically, with textbooks considered along with supplementary, supporting resources to confirm that the course as a whole provides students with the content delineated in the curricular requirements of the AP Course Audit.
The specified editions of the following textbooks meet the AP English Language and Composition Course Audit curricular requirements. Earlier editions of these texts or other textbooks not listed here may meet the AP Course Audit curricular requirements if supplemented with appropriate college-level instructional resources. For discussions regarding the usefulness of these texts and other teaching materials in the AP English Language & Composition classroom, please consult the Teachers' Resources section of AP Central. |
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Index of Textbooks Atwan, Robert. Convergences: Themes, Texts, and Images for Composition, 3rd Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Axelrod, Rise B., and Charles R. Cooper. The St. Martin's Guide to Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Barnet, Sylvan, and Hugo Bedau. Current Issues and Enduring Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument with Readings. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Bartholomae, David, and Anthony Petrosky. Ways of Reading. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Bazerman, Charles, and Paul Prior. What Writing Does and How It Does It. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Bloom, Lynn Z. The Essay Connection. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Brassil, John, Carl Glover and Sandra Coker. Analysis, Argument, and Synthesis. Saddle Brook NJ: Peoples Education. Columbo, Gary, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle. Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Connelly, Mark. The Sundance Writer: A Rhetoric, Reader, Handbook. Wadsworth Publishing. Covino, William A. The Elements of Persuasion. Boston: Longman. Crider, Scott. The Office of Assertion: An Art of Rhetoric for Academic Essay. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books. Crowley, Sharon, and Debra Hawhee. Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students. New York, NY: Longman. Ede, Lisa. Work in Progress: A Guide to Academic Writing and Revising. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's. Faigley, Lester, Anna Palchik, Cynthia Selfe, and Diana George. Picturing Texts. New York: W. W. Norton. Faigley, Lester, Jack Selzer. A Little Argument. New York: Longman. Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst. They Say/I Say: the Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (with readings). New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Harris, Joseph. Rewriting: How to Do Things with Text. Logan, UT: Utah University Press. Heinrichs, Jay. Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion. New York: Three Rivers Press. Hillocks, Jr., George. Teaching Argument Writing, Grades 6-12. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann. Johnstone, Barbara. Discourse Analysis. London: Blackwell, 2008. Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. Practical Argument. Bostone: Bedford/St. Martin's. Kolln, Martha, and Loretta Gray. Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects, 6th Edition. New York: Longman. Latterell, Catherine G. ReMix: reading + composing culture, 2nd Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Lunsford, Andrea A., John J. Ruszkiewicz, and Keith Walters. Everything's an Argument: with Readings. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Miller, Robert K. The Informed Argument. New York: Heinlein. Mims, Joan, Elizabeth Nollen. Mirror on America: Essays, and Images from Popular Culture. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Roskelly, Hephzibah, and David Jolliffe. Everyday Use: Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing. New York: Longman. Shea, RenéPeterson, Linda e, Lawrence Scanlon, and Robin Dissin Aufses. The Language of Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Spatt, Brenda. Writing from Sources, 8th Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Tibbetts, A.M., and Charlene Tibbetts. Strategies of Rhetoric. New York: HarperCollins. Tufte, Virginia. Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press. White, Fred and Simone Billings. The Well Crafted Argument, 4th Edition. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Williams, Joseph M., and Gregory G. Colomb. Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, 10th Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson. Readers Austin, Michael. Reading the World: Ideas that Matter. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Cohen, Samuel. 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Colombo, Gary, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle. Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Connelly, Mark. The Sundance Reader. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Conrad, Ronald. The Act of Writing: Canadian Essays for Composition. Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Cooley, Thomas. Back to the Lake. New York: Norton. Cooley, Thomas, ed. The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition. New York: W. W. Norton. Dillard, Annie and Cort Conley. Modern American Memoirs. New York: Harper Perennials. DiYanni, Robert, and Pat C. Hoy II. Frames of Mind: A Rhetorical Reader with Occasions for Writing. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. DiYanni, Robert, ed. One Hundred Great Essays. New York: Longman. Eschholz, Paul, and Alfred Rosa, eds. Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Eschholz, Paul, and Alfred Rosa, eds. Subjects/Strategies: A Writer's Reader. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Flachman, Kim, and Michael Flachman. The Prose Reader. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Gilyard, Keith, Deborah H. Holdstein, and Charles I. Schuster. Rhetorical Choices: A Reader for Writers. New York: Longman. Gross, John, ed. The Oxford Book of Essays. New York: Oxford University Press. Jacobus, Lee A. A World of Ideas. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Kennedy, X.J., Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron. The Bedford Reader. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell. The Blair Reader: Exploring Contemporary Issues. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Kirszner, Laurie G., and Stephen R. Mandell, eds. Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's. Kitchen, Judith. Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton. laGuardia, Dolores, and Hans Guth. American Voices: Culture and Community. New York: McGraw-Hill. McCuen, Jo Ray, and Anthony C. Winkler, eds. Readings for Writers. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. McQuade, Donald, and Robert Atwan. The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings, 6th Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Miller, George, ed. The Prentice Hall Reader. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Muller, Gilbert H. The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across the Disciplines. McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Nadell, Judith A., John Langan, and Eliza A. Comodromos. The Longman Reader. New York: Longman. Peterson, Linda H., John C. Brereton, Joseph Bizup, Anne Fernald, and Melissa Goldthwaite eds. The Norton Reader, 13th Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Ramage, John D., John C. Bean, and June Johnson. Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings. New York: Longman. Root Jr., Robert L., and Michael Steinberg. The Fourth Genre. New York: Longman. Stubbs, Marcia, Sylvan Barnet, and William E. Cain. The Little, Brown Reader. New York: Longman. Trimmer, James F., and Maxine C. Hairston, eds. The Riverside Reader. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Walters, Keith, and Michael Brody. What's Language Got to Do With It? New York: W.W. Norton. Zinsser, William K. Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. New York: Mariner Books. Handbooks, Style Guides, and Grammar Texts Blakesley, David and Jeffrey Hoogeveen. Writing: a Manual for the Digital Age. Wadsworth Publishing. Bullock, Richard. The Norton Field Guide to Writing (with readings). New York: W.W. Norton. Faigley, Lester. Penguin Handbook. New York: Longman. Fowler, H. Ramsey, and Jane E. Aaron. The Little, Brown Handbook. New York: Longman. Hacker, Diana. The Bedford Handbook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Hall, Donald, and Sven Birkerts. Writing Well. New York: Longman. Killgallon, Don. Sentence Composing for College. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook. Lanham, Richard A. Revising Prose. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Lunsford, Andrea A. St. Martin's Handbook. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Miles, Robert, Marc Bertonasco, and William Karns. Prose Style. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Murray, Donald. The Craft of Revision. Boston: Thomson/Heinle. Muth, Marcia F. Researching and Writing. New York: Bedford St. Martins. Strunk, William, Jr., and E. B. White. Elements of Style. New York: Longman. Troyka, Lynn Quitman, and Douglas Hesse. Simon and Schuster Handbook for Writers. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Zinsser, William K. On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction. New York: Harper and Row. |
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