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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, like a handbook--with menus, directories, and a glossary/index that make it easy to use--in a format that's as user-friendly as the best handbooks. With the rhetoric in front and readings in back, , with readings includes 80+ readings in all.
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" 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
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"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. is one. The innovation it offers is long overdue." Paul Heilker, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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"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
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" 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, Middle Tennessee State University
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"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, University of Louisiana at Monroe
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"This book nails the rhetoric, and the readings have enough variety in them to support multiple approaches for instruction." Joanna Clark, Cisco Junior College
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"The beauty of the is that it can conform to any style of teaching and appeal to any pedagogical approach." Tony Procell, El Paso Community College
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"I would highly recommend the book to anyone new to the freshman composition classroom." DaRelle Rollins, Hampton University
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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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With the rhetoric in front and readings in back, The Norton Field Guide to Writing, with readings includes 80+ readings in all.
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Take the kind of guidelines found in the most successful rhetorics. Design them to be as user-friendly as the most popular handbooks. Make it brief. That's The Norton Field Guide. A new kind of rhetoric: Tells students what they need to know, resists the temptation to tell them everything there is to know.
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Fully updated 2009 MLA documentation guidelines with revised templates that show students how to cite sources using the current style.
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Fully updated 2009 MLA documentation guidelines with revised templates that show students how to cite sources using the current style.
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The most successful new rhetoric in a generation, plus an anthology of 60 readings. Designed as 2 books in one, so that teachers can center their courses on the rhetoric or the readings--and draw from the other part as needed.
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.
Maureen Daly Goggin(Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University) is the 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. She recently received the ASU Alumni Association Faculty Teaching Award and is the author of Authoring a Discipline: Scholarly Journals and the Post-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition(2000).