The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook

by Richard Bullock, Deborah Bertsch, Maureen Daly Goggin, Francine Weinberg

Overview

The most successful new rhetoric in a generation, with a reader and a handbook—everything students need, in one book.

Easy to use, flexible, and a great value. 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. The first rhetoric designed for easy reference — with menus, directories, and a glossary/index that make it easy to use.

The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook includes an anthology of 60 readings — 29 new to the second edition. Color-coded links offer teachers the flexibility of centering their classes on the rhetoric or the readings. And the handbook is in back, helping students edit what they write.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393884135
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2022
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	1248
Sales rank:	136,658
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Richard Bullock is emeritus professor of English at Wright State University, where he directed the writing programs for 28 years and designed the university's writing across the curriculum program and Introduction to College Writing Workshop. In 2012, he 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 Professor of English at Columbus State Community College (Ohio), where she teaches first-year composition and mentors high school dual credit teachers. Bertsch has served as chair of the Two-Year College English Association (Midwest Region) and as a manuscript reviewer for Teaching English in the Two-Year College and for College Composition and Communication. With Columbus State colleagues, she won a Campus Technology Impact Award from Campus Technology Magazine in 2018 and a Diana Hacker Outstanding Program Award from NCTE in 2007. In 2012, Bertsch was the recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award from the Columbus State Education Association, and in 2020 she received a Distinguished Full Professor award from the college.

Maureen Daly Goggin is Professor of English and former associate chair of the English Department at Arizona State University, where she has also 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 of several scholarly books, including Authoring a Discipline: Scholarly Journals and the Post-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition (2000).

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

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

Susanmarie Harrington

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

DaRelle Rollins

"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 selection of longer, shorter, expository, and researched essays makes the book a useful teaching tool. The readings are bound by a common creativity that will inspire students to make more daring approaches to their writing."

Christopher Harris

"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

"This book nails the rhetoric, and the readings have enough variety in them to support multiple approaches for instruction."

Joanna Clark

"The Norton Field Guide to Writing, with readings can be used in a variety of ways, depending on each individual teacher’s style and focus. The apparatus is well-designed, especially the detailed focus on genres, and each chapter includes effective sample writing."

Allison Smith

"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