The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Reading and Handbook, Second Edition
Status: Available Author: Bullock, Day Goggin, Weinberg ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-393-93382-6 Year: 2009 Description: Text / Softcover / / 1062 pages Instructor's Guide/Teacher's Resource: Available Subject: English Division: School Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Contact: Lindsay Sutherland
Overview
The most successful new rhetoric in a generation, with a reader and a handbook — everything students need, in one book.
Easy to use, flexible, and a great value. With just enough detail — and color-coded links that send students to more detail if they need it — this is the rhetoric that tells students what they need to know and resists the temptation to tell them everything there is to know. The first rhetoric designed for easy reference — with menus, directories, and a glossary/index that make it easy to use.
The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook includes an anthology of 60 readings — 29 new to the second edition. Color-coded links offer teachers the flexibility of centering their classes on the rhetoric or the readings. And the handbook is in back, helping students edit what they write.
Tells students what they need to know, but resists the urge to tell them everything there is to know. Chapters are short and to the point, with color-coded links that send students to pages where they can find more detail if they need more. Menus, directories, and a glossary/index make it easy for students to find whatever information they're looking for.
Uniquely flexible for teachers
With short chapters on every topic, this book supports any pedagogical approach. Teachers can choose from the menu of chapters and assign them in any order — and the color-coded links help draw from other chapters as needed.
85 readings — half new to this edition Great readings on topics students will want to read: a review of Quantum of Solace; an analysis of Obama's victory speech; a report on the growing number of vegetarians; a proposal for improving Teach for America; an essay about the eviction of Addie Polk, victim of the recent foreclosure crisis; a mixed-genre essay on Facebook "friends" — and more. Readings represent a range of length and difficulty — with one longer piece in each chapter. Eleven of the readings are written by students.
An intuitive, easy-to-use handbook The handbook is organized around Sentences, Words, and Punctuation/Mechanics, making it easy for students to find what they're looking for. Color-coded links refer students to the glossary/index for definitions of key terms if they need them, so there's no overload of terminology.
Color-coded documentation guidelines for MLA and APA
Color-coded templates make documentation easy to do; MLA and APA guidelines reflect the 2009 update.
NEW chapters on synthesis, arguing, mixing genres, essay exams, and inquiry
The synthesizing ideas chapter helps students weave together ideas from several sources.
The arguing chapter shows students the moves they need to make, from writing a thesis, to providing good reasons and strong evidence to support their claim, to considering positions that differ from theirs, and more.
The mixing genres chapter explains how to combine a number of genres in a single text (as is done in much real-world writing).
The essay exams chapter helps students prepare for and do timed writing.
The writing as inquiry chapter encourages students to approach writing projects with curiosity and provides strategies to help them get beyond what they already know about their topic.
Online resources for students The Norton Field Guide has a rich suite of electronic resources for students, including:
The Norton Writer's Help Window A quick-reference version of the Field Guide downloads into Word to make writing help available when students most need it — as they write. Color-coded hyperlinks pop up more information if students need it. Includes model student papers, complete MLA and APA documentation models, and the complete Handbook.
Student Website This free-and-open site includes complete MLA and APA documentation guidelines, model student essays, an optional e-portfolio space where students can submit and store their writing, worksheets to print out or use online, the complete Handbook, and 1,000+ exercises with feedback linked to the online Handbook.
Norton/Write Free and open to all readers of Norton composition books and to anyone who wants to be a better writer or researcher. The site includes a complete online Handbook, and three easy-to-navigate sections: Writing and Rhetoric, Research and Documentation, and Handbook and Exercises.
Richard Bullock (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is Professor of English at Wright State University, where he directs the writing programs and serves as assistant chair of the English department.
Maureen Daly Goggin (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University) is the Associate Chair of the English Department at Arizona State University, where she has also directed several of the writing programs and the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics.
Francine Weinberg (M.Ed, Teachers College, Columbia University) is a professional editor who has worked for more than 30 years on college and high school English textbooks.
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