The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393931730 ISBN 13: 9780393931730

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

Synopsis

Read by millions of students since it was first published in 1965, The Norton Reader is the bestselling collection of its kind.

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Linda Peterson (Ph.D., Brown University) was Professor of English at Yale University and was published widely on nonfiction prose, notably life-writing and women's authorship. She co-directed the Bass Writing Program at Yale for twenty-five years and served as president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.

John Brereton (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is a Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Previously he served as Executive Director of the Calderwood Writing Initiative at the Boston Athenaum. He has taught writing at Harvard University, Wayne State University, Brandeis University, and the City University of New York. His scholarship focuses on the history of teaching English literature and composition.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0393931730
• ISBN 13: 9780393931730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 784
• Editor: Peterson Linda, Brereton John