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Writing

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. Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months

   John Dufresne

   “[Dufresne’s] generous, wise, cajoling, stern, and compassionate voice will get you working right away.”—Brad WatsonMore

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 Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing

   Alice LaPlante

   A Los Angeles Times bestseller: wonderfully lucid and illuminating, Alice LaPlante’s guide to writing fiction “recalls Francine Prose’s bestseller, Reading Like a Writer” (Library Journal).More

6. Clean, Well-Lighted Sentences: A Guide to Avoiding the Most Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation

   Janis Bell

   An extraordinary handbook: with clarity and humor, it tells the story that even good writers have been longing to hear.More

7. 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

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. Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction

   Lee Gutkind

   The one guide every creative nonfiction writer needs to turn to when being "creative."More

10. Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within

    Kim Addonizio

    This all-new book, by the co-author of Companion, invites you to discover and enjoy your poetic self.More

11. 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

12. Method and Madness: The Making of a Story: A Guide to Writing Fiction

    Alice LaPlante

    A fresh, inspiring guide to writing fiction.More

13. Textual Editing and Criticism: An Introduction

    Erick Kelemen

    Textual Editing and Criticism: An Introduction addresses a gap in currently available materials for English and American literature teachers who bring textual editing and criticism into their courses.
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14. Writing a Woman's Life

    Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Katha Pollitt

    "A provocative study that should be in every writer's library."—Washington PostMore

15. 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