Everyone's an Author
Build student confidence in their power as writers

This book’s authors know student writers gain confidence—and feel a sense of belonging—when they see that they already use rhetorical thinking skills in their everyday lives. In Everyone’s an Author, a positive and media-rich emphasis on real-world rhetoric engages and motivates students to practice academic writing skills in meaningful ways. In the Fifth Edition, they are guided to read, reflect, and write directly within the new assignable Norton Illumine Ebook. And new chapters help students make the most of human connections between writers through collaborative peer review and group work—even as they learn to navigate generative AI.
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Everyone's an Author
Build student confidence in their power as writers

This book’s authors know student writers gain confidence—and feel a sense of belonging—when they see that they already use rhetorical thinking skills in their everyday lives. In Everyone’s an Author, a positive and media-rich emphasis on real-world rhetoric engages and motivates students to practice academic writing skills in meaningful ways. In the Fifth Edition, they are guided to read, reflect, and write directly within the new assignable Norton Illumine Ebook. And new chapters help students make the most of human connections between writers through collaborative peer review and group work—even as they learn to navigate generative AI.
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Everyone's an Author

Everyone's an Author

Overview

Build student confidence in their power as writers

This book’s authors know student writers gain confidence—and feel a sense of belonging—when they see that they already use rhetorical thinking skills in their everyday lives. In Everyone’s an Author, a positive and media-rich emphasis on real-world rhetoric engages and motivates students to practice academic writing skills in meaningful ways. In the Fifth Edition, they are guided to read, reflect, and write directly within the new assignable Norton Illumine Ebook. And new chapters help students make the most of human connections between writers through collaborative peer review and group work—even as they learn to navigate generative AI.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781324114376
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 07/01/2026
Edition description: Fifth Edition
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Beverly Moss is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where she teaches in the Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy program, and is on the faculty at the Bread Loaf School of English. Her research and teaching interests focus on community literacy, composition theory and pedagogy, and writing center theories and practices. Her books include Literacy across Communities and A Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy Tradition in African American Churches.

Andrea Lunsford is Emerita Professor of English at Stanford University and is on the faculty at the Bread Loaf School of English. Her scholarly interests include contemporary rhetorical theory, women and the history of rhetoric, collaboration, style, and technologies of writing. She’s received the Braddock and Shaughnessy Awards, and in 1994 she received the CCCC Exemplar Award. She is currently at work on The Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing.

Michal Brody is a linguist, independent scholar, and lecturer. She was a founding faculty member of the Universidad de Oriente in Yucatán, Mexico. She has taught language-related courses in the Departments of English, Communication Studies, and MATESOL at San Francisco State University and Sonoma State University. Her scholarly work centers on language pedagogy and politics in the United States and Mexico. She’s the author (with Keith Walters) of What’s Language Got to Do with It and coauthor (with Richard Bullock and Francine Weinberg) of The Little Seagull Handbook, and has been a contributor to LetsTalkLibrary, Everyone’s an Author Tumblr site and They Say / I Blog.

Carole Clark Papper recently retired from the Department of Writing Studies and Composition at Hofstra University, where she directed the University Writing Center. Previously, she served for many years as the Director of the Ball State University Writing Program (winner of the CCCC Certificate of Excellence for 2006-2007). Her scholarly interests include visual literacy, composition theory and pedagogy, and writing center theories and practices.
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