Norton Field Guide Writing
THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATE. Flexible, easy to use, just enough detail—and the number-one best selling rhetoric. The Norton Field Guide to Writing’s flexibility and ease of use have made it the leading rhetoric text on the market—and a perfect choice for committees representing varying teaching styles.
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 but resists the temptation to tell them everything there is to know. The Fourth Edition includes new chapters on summarizing and responding, on developing academic habits of mind, and on writing literary analysis. The Norton Field Guide to Writing is also available with a handbook, an anthology, or both. To make the book more helpful for multilingual writers, the versions with the handbook include new chapters on idioms, prepositions, and Englishes; to accommodate instructors and programs teaching literary analysis, the versions with the anthology include two student essays that analyze literature and five short stories and poems for analysis. All versions are available as low-cost ebooks and in mobile-compatible formats for smart phones and tablets. Short chapters addressing every topic a writing instructor might cover allow teachers to assign chapters in whatever order they wish, making The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook a great choice for committees struggling to accommodate diverse teaching approaches.
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The three-books-in-one format gives teachers the flexibility of centering their syllabus on either the rhetoric or the readings, while links help them draw connections to the other half. Easy to use, with just enough detail. Chapter 6 (Developing Academic Habits of Mind) encourages mental habits that lead to academic success: curiosity, engagement, persistence, flexibility, creativity, and more.
Chapter 9 (Summarizing and Responding: Where Reading Meets Writing) teaches the summary/response sequence both as a strategy that's useful in many academic contexts and as a kind of writing that many composition teachers assign. Chapter 17 (Literary Analyses) in the Genres part of the book provides guidelines for writing a literary analysis, along with a sample student analysis.
Chapter 64 (Literary Analyses) in the anthology includes 2 sample student analyses and 5 short stories and poems. These chapters were in the first two editions and have now been reinstated in response to popular demand. Handbook Chapters L-3, L-5, and L-10—on Idioms, Prepositions, and Englishes—make the Field Guide more helpful for multilingual writers 28 new readings.
The Fourth Edition features 67 readings—20 in the rhetoric chapters in the front of the book and 47 in the anthology in the back. Of this total, 28 readings (more than forty percent) are new to this edition—5 in the rhetoric chapters and 23 in the anthology. Ranging from a rhetorical analysis of “The Reassuring Appeal of 'Weird Al' Yankovic” to danah boyd's evaluation of “Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production” to a report on “Why We Keep Playing the Lottery,” the new readings will engage students and spark lively responses.