The Norton Field Guide To Writing

The best-selling, most flexible rhetoric--now with advice for reading and writing across disciplines

Flexible, easy to use, just enough detail--and now the number-one best seller.

Flexible, easy to use, just enough detail--and the number-one best selling rhetoric.

Includes model student research papers demonstrating four academic styles: MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE.

"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. More inclusive than ever, the new edition features thirty new readings, including seventeen written by students, that offer fresh and inspiring sources for writing. 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"--

The Norton Field Guide to Speaking offers students the kind of helpful advice and encouragement found in leading full-length textbooks in a user-friendly, to-the-point, easily referenced "field guide" format. Its uniquely flexible, modular organization gives experienced instructors the freedom to teach their course as they choose, while its color-coded cross-referencing system and extensive student and instructor resources provide the structural support and guidance that new instructors need.

Who was your mother before she was a mother? Essays and photos from Brit Bennett, Jennifer Egan, Danzy Senna, Laura Lippman, Jia Tolentino, and many more. In this remarkable collection, New York Times–bestselling novelist Edan Lepucki gathers more than sixty original essays and favorite photographs to explore this question. The daughters in Mothers Before are writers and poets, artists and teachers, and the images and stories they share reveal the lives of women in ways that are vulnerable and true, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always moving. Contributors include: Brit Bennett * Jennine Capó Crucet * Jennifer Egan * Angela Garbes * Annabeth Gish * Alison Roman * Lisa See * Danzy Senna * Dana Spiotta * Lan Samantha Chang * Laura Lippman * Jia Tolentino * Tiffany Nguyen * Charmaine Craig * Maya Ramakrishnan * Eirene Donohue * and many others

Give yourself a powerful competitive advantage by becoming a better business writer. Better writers get better jobs and more promotions; they persuade people through emails, Web sites, presentations, proposals, resumes, grant proposals, you name it. Businesses know this: that's why they spend $3 billion a year helping their employees become more effective writers. The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing shows you how to master the art of effective business communication replacing the old standards of jargon, pomposity, and grammar drills with a simple, quick and conversational writing style. Authors Natalie Canavor and Claire Meirowitz demonstrate how to plan and organize your content; make your point faster; tell your readers what's in it for them; construct winning documents of every kind, print and electronic, even blog entries and text messages! The Truth about the New Rules of Business Writing brings together the field's best knowledge, and shows exactly how to put it to work. With an "aha" on every page, it presents information in a clear, accessible style that's easy to understand and use. Written in short chapters, it covers the entire field, cuts to the heart of every topic, pulls back the curtain on expert secrets, and pops the bubble of commonly-held assumptions. Simply put, this book delivers easy, painless writing techniques that work.