| The Norton Field Guide to Writing | 
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Sales Rank: 2719
Category: Book
Author: Richard Bullock
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Label: W. W. Norton
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0393977765
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN: 9780393977769
ASIN: 0393977765
Publication Date: July 19, 2005
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Product Description
A user-friendly guide to email, evaluations, profiles, proposals, reflections, resumes, and many other kinds of writing, The Norton Field Guide to Writing is designed to make the information easy to find?and written in a way that makes it easy to understand.
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 From a college composition instructor, not all that great January 20, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
The three (not quite redeeming) strengths of this book are its reasonable price, readability, and great example essays for each genre of writing discussed - some essays by professional writers and some by first-year college writing students. The example essays represent a broad range of styles and voices, allowing students to see the variety of "right ways" that a person might write in a particular genre.
As a teacher, however, I feel books such as this are something of a waste of time for my students. The only way a person can truly improve at writing is to write, not sit around and read about writing. Aside from the example essays, the reading itself is terribly dry, and I would in fact prefer that my students spent their time reading socially relevant and thought-provoking texts and freewriting on them instead of reading this text. Most basic writing-process guidelines that a freshman comp student will ever use (if he or she hasn't already learned them in high school) can be found in more multipurpose texts such as Diana Hacker's _Writer's Reference_. The number of items I assign my students to read in this book each semester is not even worth their buying it in the first place.
If you are considering this book, I urge you to look over the much denser and more helpful _A Writer's Reference_ instead and save your students the money for this field guide.
 Great for English class December 1, 2006
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!
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