The Norton Field Guide to Writing

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. New readings represent diverse ideas and perspectives in every genre, over half by student writers. 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.

Richard Bullock is emeritus professor of English at Wright State University, where he directed the writing programs for 28 years, designed the university's writing across the curriculum program and Introduction to College Writing Workshop, and was awarded the Trustees' Award for Faculty Excellence, Wright State's highest honor. In addition to The Norton Field Guide to Writing, he is a coauthor of The Little Seagull Handbook.

Deborah Bertsch is coauthor of The Norton Field Guide to Writing and Professor of English at Columbus State Community College, where she’s also served as writing center coordinator and dual enrollment lead faculty. A past chair of the Two-Year College English Association-Midwest, Bertsch has won a Diana Hacker Outstanding Program award from NCTE, a Campus Technology Impact Award from Campus Technology magazine, and a Distinguished Full Professor Award from her college.