Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #712149 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 630 pages

Review
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 )

I would highly recommend the book to anyone new to the freshman composition classroom. (DaRelle Rollins, Hampton 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 )

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 )

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.

Customer Reviews

Great for English class
This is a good book if you are taking an English class. It is divided into six sections- Rhetorical Situations, Genres, Processes, Strategies, Research/Documentation, and Media/Design. This book has really helped me in the Research section. I found this book really helpful and I did get great grades on my papers!

Very helpful
This book has been helpful to understand academic writing. There are helpful visuals of the different writing styles.

good book BAD service
The book is very good for explaining writing concepts in an easily understood format. It also color codes rhetorical aspects of writing, which never helped me, but I'm sure would be quite useful for other people. However, the shipping time for this book was completely unacceptable. I bought this book 2 weeks before college started along with several other books from amazon. All the other books arrived just on time, but this book was almost 3 weeks late so I finally was forced to buy a different copy from the college store since I needed the book for a class. So now I have an extra copy of the book. Wasn't very happy about this.