The Norton Field Guide to Writing: with Readings and Handbook

by Richard Bullock, Deborah Bertsch, Maureen Daly Goggin

Overview

The best-selling rhetoric that is as flexible as writing and teaching is today.

More widely assigned than any other rhetoric, The Norton Field Guide to Writing prioritizes flexibility and choice for both students and instructors. It supports a variety of teaching contexts and approaches—from genres to rhetorical strategies, co-requisite to dual enrolled, online to in-person, one semester to two. Its user-friendly design makes it easy to navigate in any format, with short chapters, unique cross references to more detail, annotated examples, and embedded videos in the ebook. The Seventh Edition offers even more ways to inspire student agency with new advice that explores generative AI and learning online; new prompts that foster remix and transfer of writing to varied situations; new readings that provide refreshed models; and an expansion of the resources that teachers most loved in previous editions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781324087731
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/2025
Edition description:	Seventh High School Edition
Pages:	1168
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Richard Bullock is emeritus professor of English at Wright State University, where he directed the writing programs for 28 years, designed the university's writing across the curriculum program and Introduction to College Writing Workshop, and was awarded the Trustees' Award for Faculty Excellence, Wright State's highest honor. In addition to The Norton Field Guide to Writing, he is a coauthor of The Little Seagull Handbook.

Deborah Bertsch is coauthor of The Norton Field Guide to Writing and Professor of English at Columbus State Community College, where she’s also served as writing center coordinator and dual enrollment lead faculty. A past chair of the Two-Year College English Association-Midwest, Bertsch has won a Diana Hacker Outstanding Program award from NCTE, a Campus Technology Impact Award from Campus Technology magazine, and a Distinguished Full Professor Award from her college.

Maureen Daly Goggin is Professor emerita of English and former associate chair of the English Department at Arizona State University, where she taught and has taught several years at the University of Graz in Austria. She has directed several of the writing programs and the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics and received the ASU Alumni Association Faculty Teaching Award. She is the author and editor of over a dozen scholarly books, including Authoring a Discipline: Scholarly Journals and the Post-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition (2000) and Women’s Ways of Making (2021) with Shirley Rose.