The Norton Reader
The classic among essay readers is one of the most-used collections for AP Language & Composition.
The Norton Reader has introduced millions of writing students to the essay as a genre. First published in 1965, it is still the best-selling thematic reader-and the only thematic reader that also supports a genre-based approach. The Thirteenth Edition introduces a new generation of editors, almost 50 new essays, and a unique new website that allows readers to sort and search for readings by theme, genre, mode, discipline, keyword, and more.
Check out www.nortonreader.com to find the readings you want and create a custom reading list for your class.
Revised for today’s composition classes
The book has been revised for today’s composition classrooms—and made more searchable and flexible for composition teachers. Multiple indexes and a new website give teachers the options of focusing on the themes they like to teach as well as the genres or modes they assign in their classes.
Almost 50 new readings in the full edition, and almost 25 in the shorter, many of them appearing for the first time in a composition text.
New essays include Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, in which a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian explains how she came to coin the popular slogan, and why it resonates so powerfully; Atul Gawande’s When Doctor’s Make Mistakes, a riveting account of errors in medicine—and what can be done to prevent them; Sherman Alexie’s Superman and Me, a literacy narrative about learning to read using comic books; and more. With its mix of classic and contemporary essays, The Norton Reader remains the largest and most authoritative collection of essays.
A new website lets instructors easily sort and search for readings.
With this unique website, readings are searchable by theme, genre, mode, keyword, and more. This new site will be especially helpful for building a syllabus: teachers can sort readings by genre, choose the genre they assign, and find readings that demonstrate that genre. Teachers can then read a short passage from each reading and a biographical note about the author, create a list of readings they like, and more.
StudySpace
A quick and easy way to find writing help, this free and open website offers model student papers, documentation, grammar exercises, author biographies, and access to the complete norton/write.
Instructor's Guide
Joseph Bizup (Author, Boston University), Anne Fernald (Author, Fordham University), Melissa Goldthwaite (Author, St. Joseph's University)
This guide for instructors contains advice on planning a course, sample syllabi, suggested in-class activities, notes for new teachers, writing program administrators, teachers of developmental writing and notes, overviews, suggestions, prompts, and a teaching "hook" for each reading