5 Steps to a 5 on the AP: Writing the AP English Essay

by Barbara L. Murphy, Estelle M. Rankin

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288 pages, Paperback

First published August 3, 2003

Reviews

[Franky · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think the best thing about this book is simply the samples of essays/writings for the various prompts. It might have been better to devote two separate books to the AP Language and the AP Literature writing components, as they are quite extensive. The book does a decent job covering some prompts that are representative of what an AP student might see for the three different types of essays, but it could have gone into more depth. There are some "warm up" activities, which are reviews for rhetorical devices, modes of writing, annotations, etc. I like the nifty chapter on writing a conclusion, as many of these books do not much serious focus to that aspect of the essay. Overall, not too bad of a resource for the AP student.

[Kristin Bateman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent strategies, but it certainly won't gauruntee scores. I'm going to use this as intro material in my AP Lang course with some of the activities as warm-ups. I might even use some in my lower grades.

Not bad, but certainly not great.