Philip Schwyzer

Books by Philip Schwyzer

  1. Book CoverCourse Guide: for The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition and The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors, Eighth Edition


    Reconceived for ease of use and substantially rewritten, the Guide offers extensive help from planning a course and developing a syllabus and course objectives to preparing exams. For authors and works, the Guide entries provide a "hook" to start a lively class discussion; a Quick Read section to refresh instructors on essential information about a text or author; Teaching Suggestions that call out interesting textual or contextual features; Teaching Clusters of suggested groups or pairs of texts; and Discussion Questions. Built into the Guide is a freestanding Media Guide by Philip Schwyzer, which offers imaginative suggestions for integrating the anthology’s rich multimedia tools with the text and for incorporating them into traditional or distance-learning courses.More

  2. Book CoverTeaching with The Norton Anthology of English Literature: A Guide for Instructors


    The Instructor’s Guide offers extensive help, from planning a course and developing a syllabus and course objectives to preparing exams. For authors and works in the Anthology, entries provide a “hook” to start class discussion; a Quick Read section to refresh instructors on essential information about a text or author; Teaching Suggestions that call out interesting textual or contextual features; Teaching Clusters of suggested groups or pairs of texts; and Discussion Questions. To help instructors integrate the Anthology’s new Supplemental Ebook, the Guide features new entries to online texts and clusters. The Guide devotes two completely revised chapters to using technology in the classroom, offering suggestions for teaching the Anthology’s multimedia with the texts and for incorporating the media into traditional or distance-learning courses. For the first time, the Guide will also be made available in a searchable online format.More