The Norton Pocket Book of Writing by Students - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393932303 ISBN 13: 9780393932300

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Synopsis

A Norton anthology of student writing.

This is a book that celebrates student writing―and honors the teaching that helps students produce such writing. It collects writing done by college students across the country and includes a call for papers, inviting students to submit their own writing for a prize and for inclusion in future editions of this book.

About this title

About the Author:

Melissa A. Goldthwaite (Ph.D., The Ohio State University), General Editor, is Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, where she teaches composition, creative writing, and rhetorical theory. Her books include Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal (New York University Press, 2014), The Norton Pocketbook of Writing by Students (2010), Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams (University of Utah Press, 2003), and The St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003, 2008, 2014).

Review:

“In The Norton Pocket Book of Writing by Students, Melissa Goldthwaite serves up a veritable feast of student writing and invites us to pull up our chairs and dive in. Every teacher of writing is going to want to have a copy of this book, and to share it with our students.”
- Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0393932303
• ISBN 13: 9780393932300
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Goldthwaite Melissa A.