The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook

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.

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.

Maureen Daly Goggin is Professor emerita of English and former associate chair of the English Department at Arizona State University, where she taught and has taught several years at the University of Graz in Austria. She has directed several of the writing programs and the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics and received the ASU Alumni Association Faculty Teaching Award. She is the author and editor of over a dozen scholarly books, including Authoring a Discipline: Scholarly Journals and the?Post-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition?(2000) and Women’s Ways of Making (2021) with Shirley Rose.

Francine Weinberg is an author and editor who has worked for more than 30 years on college and high school English textbooks. She is the author of the handbook in The Norton Field Guide to Writing and a coauthor of The Little Seagull Handbook.