The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Handbook / Edition 2

by Richard Bullock, Francine Weinberg

Overview

The most flexible rhetoric for a first-year writing course—and every writing student. 

The Norton Field Guide lets instructors teach the way they want to teach, and helps students write in the way that works best for them. In the Sixth Edition, new coauthor Deborah Bertsch shows students how to adapt their writing to new rhetorical situations with three new chapters—Remixes, Explorations, and Reflecting on Your Writing. New readings represent diverse ideas and perspectives in every genre, over half by student writers. New videos and interactive activities in InQuizitive for Writers reveal multiple ways to understand and apply the book’s advice, and are complemented by new instructor resources that respond to today’s teaching challenges.     

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393932478
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/2009
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	630
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(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.

Francine Weinberg is an author and editor who has worked for more than 30 years on college and high school English textbooks. She is the author of the handbook in The Norton Field Guide to Writing and a coauthor of The Little Seagull Handbook.

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

A simple, minimal, beautiful handbook, one that is easy to use and well-organized.

Susanmarie Harrington

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