The Norton Field Guide to Writing / Edition 3

by Richard Bullock

Overview

Flexible, easy to use, just enough detail—and now the number-one best seller.

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. Designed for easy reference — with menus, directories, and a combined glossary/index. The Third Edition has new chapters on academic writing, choosing genres, writing online, and choosing media, as well as new attention to multimodal writing.

The Norton Field Guide to Writing is available with a handbook, an anthology, or both — and all versions are now available as low-cost ebooks and in mobile-compatible formats for iPhones, Droids, and iPads.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393919561
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	02/01/2013
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Richard Bullock (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is a professor of English at Wright State University, where he directs the writing programs and serves as assistant chair of the English department. His scholarship and teaching focus on the teaching of writing in college and secondary school. The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary, which he coedited with John Trimbur and Charles I. Schuster, won the 1993 Conference on College Composition and Communication Book Award.

Editorial Reviews

The beauty of the Field Guide is that it can conform to any style of teaching and appeal to any pedagogical approach.

Tony Procell

The level of detail is perfect. …It leaves room for the instructor to move about to add material, to pitch the content in his or her particular way. Writers, even student writers, want advice, not directives. In years of reviewing, I have seen few books that offer something new and valuable and interesting. The Norton Field Guide is one. The innovation it offers is long overdue.

Paul Heilker

The Norton Field Guide is one of the best rhetorics I’ve seen at achieving essential coverage and brevity. It gives guidance to new instructors and flexibility to others. …The readings are great.

Nedra Reynolds

The amount of detail is perfect. Students will find this book easy to understand—and will appreciate not being overloaded with information.

Mitzi Walker Jones

I would highly recommend the book to anyone new to the freshman composition classroom.

DaRelle Rollins