Barron's AP English Language and Composition by George Ehrenhaft Ed.D.
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- Pub. Date: January 2008
- 400pp
- Sales Rank: 17,509
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: January 2008
- Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 400pp
- Sales Rank: 17,509
- Series: Barron's AP English Language and Composi
- ISBN-13: 9780764136900
- ISBN: 0764136909
- Edition Number: 2
Synopsis
Five full-length practice exams with all questions answered and explained, plus an enlightening overview of the exam are just two of this manual's valuable features. New in this edition is discussion of the revised essay question first appearing in this test in May of this year. The new essay question focuses on use of documentation and citation skills in essay writing. Test takers will also find detailed practice and review for answering the test's multiple-choice questions a complete guide to the important essay questions, and information on how essays are scored. Sample students' essays are presented with critiques pointing out each essay's strengths and weaknesses. Test takers are advised on the specifics of what they need to know about the craft of writing, and what they need to know about language and rhetoric. A glossary consisting of hundreds of rhetorical terms is also included. This version of the manual comes with an enclosed CD-ROM, which presents two additional full-length exams with questions answered and automatic scoring
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June 04, 2009: A review by a student is probably the best thing this book needs. For an AP English student who didn't really have any exposure to the style of this exam until about a month or two beforehand, the Barron's guide does a decent job of explaining the major elements of the exam. Although it has a lot more emphasis on how to write the essays than the multiple choice, the Barron's guide gives an overview of all the English classes you've ever taken. There are a few pages on grammar, lots of multiple choice practice and break-down, and excellent tips for essay writing, including do's and don'ts that give the reader a good idea of how far they can push the prompts in respect to creativity and casualness on the exam.
Instead of giving samples of essays that scored a 9, 7, or 5, the Barron's guide gives the middle cut of essays, keeping the average student's confidence high and apprehensions low. The casual language in which the book is written also does a lot to boost a student's confidence. Written with some humor sprinkled in, the Barron's keeps studying relatively interesting.However, the practice tests are another story completely. The Barron's offers four practice tests with about fifty multiple choice and three essay prompts. The answers to the multiple choice and brief explanations for those and the essays are also made available, but typos are prevalent and to be expected. Many answers do not match their questions at all or give an explanation that means nothing. A warning to the self-taught student who is using this guide as their only mode of preparation for the exam: it's better to use it with a teacher or someone who knows what they're doing with the English language because they will be able to discern between a genuine answer and a typo. Nevertheless, the sample passages for the multiple choice do prepare you for the style of the passages on the actual exam, and may actually be harder to comprehend than those on the exam. Overall, the Barron's guide for the AP English Lang and Comp exam is a pretty comprehensive guide that can help a student with little or no familiarity with the exam. Coming from someone who had no idea what a synthesis essay was until a few weeks before the exam, I think Barron's does a fairly good job in the way of preparation.
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