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Composition

1. The Norton Pocket Book of Writing by Students

   Melissa Goldthwaite

   A Norton anthology of student writing.More

2. Reading the World: Ideas That Matter

   Michael Austin

   Second Edition

   The only great ideas reader to offer a global perspective.More

3. The Norton Mix

   Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler, Jeffrey Andelora, Katharine N. Ings, Et Al.

   A rich database that lets professors create the perfect reader for their courses.More

4. The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition

   Thomas Cooley

   Seventh Edition

   An outstanding collection of brief essays providing high-interest models of the rhetorical modes, along with beautifully written instruction that demonstrates its own lessons about good writing.More

5. The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook

   Richard Bullock, Maureen Daly Goggin, Francine Weinberg

   Second Edition

   The most successful new rhetoric in a generation, with a reader and a handbook—everything students need, in one book.More

6. The Norton Field Guide to Writing

   Richard Bullock

   Second Edition with 2009 MLA Updates

   Easy to use, flexible, and a great value—The Norton Field Guide to Writing is the most successful new rhetoric in a generation. Now in a second edition.More

7. The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Handbook

   Richard Bullock, Francine Weinberg

   Second Edition with 2009 MLA Updates

   The most successful new rhetoric in a generation, now in a version with a handbook—everything students need to write and edit all the kinds of writing they’re expected to do.More

8. Back to the Lake: A Reader for Writers

   Thomas Cooley

   A fresh take on the modes, showing that they are used in texts of all kinds, not just in essays written for first-year composition—and that they are central to all the writing, speaking, and thinking that we do.More

9. The Norton Book of Composition Studies

   Susan Miller

   A landmark collection by one of the field’s most distinguished scholars, The Norton Book of Composition Studies introduces new students to the historical development and most consequential themes and emphases of the field’s scholarship.More

10. "They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings

    Cathy Birkenstein, Gerald Graff, Russel Durst

    "They Say / I Say" shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most important of which involves summarizing what others have said ("they say") to set up one’s own argument ("I say").More

11. The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself

    Susan Bell

    "Bell's prose is elegant and wonderfully readable in this artful guide."—Publishers WeeklyMore

12. The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction

    Linda H. Peterson, John C. Brereton

    Twelfth Edition

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

13. Essential Literary Terms: A Brief Norton Guide with Exercises

    Sharon Hamilton

    Essential Literary Terms offers clear, concise definitions over 220 must-know literary terms for introductory students.More

14. Reading/Writing Canada: Short Fiction and Nonfiction

    Judith Miller

    This unique anthology provides a wide range of distinctly Canadian voices in a compact, affordable format.More

15. What's Language Got to Do with It?

    Michal Brody, Keith Walters, Shirley Brice Heath

    In the Mideast, words shoot to kill.More