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Richard Bullock (Author), Francine Weinberg (Author)
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0393932478 978-0393932478 January 29, 2009 2nd
Small and handy, with color-coding that makes it easy for students to navigate. Written in everyday language, making it simple for them to understand. Just enough detail, with brief guides to writing that have color-coded links to specific pages where students can find more information if they need it. This and more has made The Norton Field Guide the first rhetoric that’s easy for students to use.

Now available in a version with a handbook, providing everything students need to write. The Field Guide is up front, providing the guidance students need for writing all the kinds of discourse they need to write in college; the Handbook is in the back, helping them to edit what they write.

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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, University of Rhode Island )

“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, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University )

“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, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith )

“The beauty of the Field Guide is that it can conform to any style of teaching and appeal to any pedagogical approach.”” (Tony Procell, El Paso Community College )

“I would highly recommend the book to anyone new to the freshman composition classroom.” (DaRelle Rollins, Hampton University ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 630 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.; 2nd edition (January 29, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393932478
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393932478
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars From a college composition instructor, not all that great, January 19, 2007
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The three (not quite redeeming) strengths of this book are its reasonable price, readability, and great example essays for each genre of writing discussed - some essays by professional writers and some by first-year college writing students. The example essays represent a broad range of styles and voices, allowing students to see the variety of "right ways" that a person might write in a particular genre.

As a teacher, however, I feel books such as this are something of a waste of time for my students. The only way a person can truly improve at writing is to write, not sit around and read about writing. Aside from the example essays, the reading itself is terribly dry, and I would in fact prefer that my students spent their time reading socially relevant and thought-provoking texts and freewriting on them instead of reading this text. Most basic writing-process guidelines that a freshman comp student will ever use (if he or she hasn't already learned them in high school) can be found in more multipurpose texts such as Diana Hacker's _Writer's Reference_. The number of items I assign my students to read in this book each semester is not even worth their buying it in the first place.

If you are considering this book, I urge you to look over the much denser and more helpful _A Writer's Reference_ instead and save your students the money for this field guide.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Thievery, January 14, 2012
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I ordered The Norton Field Guide to Writings with Readings SBN#9780393933819. What I received was The Norton Field Guide to Writing SBN#9780393934380. Just started my homework for class this minute and discovered my reading assignment is not contained in this edition. This is not the book I ordered.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Norton Field Guide to Writing (Second Edition with 2009 MLA Updates), January 7, 2012
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Thanks to the real A+ seller, quick shipping, book is perfectly as described and just right on time for my next term of classes. Thanks a lot.
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