Synopses & Reviews
With readings in a wide variety of genres, subjects, and styles, it offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays for composition students today. The Twelfth Edition has been carefully revised, with 25 percent of its readings new and an extensive new introduction to reading and writing with guidelines to all the elements cited in the WPA Outcomes Statement. Available in two editions: a full edition, with 206 readings; and a shorter edition, with 123.
Synopsis
Read by millions of students since it was first published in 1965, The Norton Readeris the bestselling collection of its kind.
About the Author
Linda H. Peterson(Ph.D., Brown University), General Editor, is a professor of English at Yale University and has published widely on nonfiction prose, notably women"s autobiography and Victorian narrative. She has been co-director of the Bass Writing Program at Yale since 1979 and has served as president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.
John C. Brereton(Ph.D., Rutgers University) teaches writing at Harvard University and is Executive Director of the Calderwood Writing Initiative at the Boston Athenum. Previously he served as Director of University Writing at Brandeis University. His scholarship focuses on the history of teaching English literature and composition.