Part 1: Academic Literacies
- 1. Writing in Academic Contexts
- 2. Reading in Academic Contexts
- michael j. sandel, What Wounds Deserve the Purple Heart?
- 3. Summarizing and Responding: Where Reading Meets Writing
- jacob macleod, Guns and Cars Are Different
- 4. Developing Academic Habits of Mind
Part 2: Rhetorical Situations
- 5. Purpose
- 6. Audience
- 7. Genre
- 8. Stance
- 9. Media / Design
Part 3: Genres
- 10. Writing a Literacy Narrative
- * rea karim, Becoming an American Girl
- * karla mariana herrera gutierrez, Reading, Writing, and Riding
- ana-jamileh kassfy, Automotive Literacy
- 11. Analyzing Texts
- * pat finn, The Architecture of Inequality: On Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite
- danielle allen, Our Declaration
- roy peter clark, Why It Worked: A Rhetorical Analysis of Obama’s Speech on Race
- 12. Reporting Information
- * renae tingling, Sleepless Nights of a University Student
- frankie schembri, Edible Magic
- jon marcus, The Reason College Costs More Than You Think
- 13. Arguing a Position
- * kelly coryell, All Words Matter: The Manipulation behind “All Lives Matter”
- * brianna schunk, Come Look at the Freaks: Examining and Advocating for Disability Theatre
- nicholas kristof, Our Blind Spot about Guns
- 14. Abstracts
- 15. Annotated Bibliographies and Reviews of Scholarly Literature
- michael benton, mark dolan, and rebecca zisch, Teen Film$
- kelly green, Researching Hunger and Poverty
- cameron carroll, Zombie Film Scholarship: A Review of the Literature
- 16. Evaluations
- * olivia mazzucato, Difficult-to-Follow Narrative Redeemed by Well-Executed Comedy in The Lovebirds
- 17. Literary Analyses
- robert frost, The Road Not Taken
- matthew miller, Frost’s Broken Roads
- 18. Memoirs
- rick bragg, All Over but the Shoutin’
- 19. Profiles
- ryan jones, A Fighter's Chance
- 20. Proposals
- * christian b. miller, Just How Dishonest Are Most Students?
- * 21. Explorations
- * brian diehl, Talking with Granddad
- * 22. Remixes
- * todd jones, Rare Earth
Part 4: Fields
- 23. Fields of Study
- 24. Reading across Fields of Study
- 25. Writing in Academic Fields of Study
Part 5: Processes
- * 26. Processes of Writing
- 27. Writing as Inquiry
- 28. Generating Ideas and Text
- * 29. Organizing Your Writing, Guiding Your Readers
- 30. Drafting
- 31. Assessing Your Own Writing
- 32. Getting Response and Revising
- 33. Editing and Proofreading
- 34. Compiling a Portfolio
- * 35. Reflecting on Your Writing
Part 6: Strategies
- 36. Analyzing Causes and Effects
- 37. Arguing
- 38. Classifying and Dividing
- 39. Comparing and Contrasting
- 40. Defining
- 41. Describing
- 42. Using Dialogue
- 43. Explaining Processes
- 44. Narrating
- 45. Taking Essay Exams
Part 7: Doing Research
- 46. Getting a Start on Research
- 47. Finding Sources
- 48. Evaluating Sources
- 49. Synthesizing Ideas
- 50. Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
- 51. Acknowledging Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism
- 52. Documentation
- 53. MLA Style
- 54. APA Style
Part 8: Media / Design
- 55. Choosing Media
- 56. Designing Text
- 57. Using Visuals, Incorporating Sound
- 58. Writing and Learning Online
- 59. Giving Presentations
Part 9: Readings
(Only in The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook)
- 60. Literacy Narratives
- matt de la peña, Sometimes the “Tough Teen” Is Quietly Writing Stories
- tanya maria barrientos, Se Habla Español
- amy tan, Mother Tongue
- nicole miles, Formation of a Caribbean Illustrator
- 61. Textual Analyses
- laurel thatcher ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
- diana george, Changing the Face of Poverty
- isabelle gill, Representation of Disney Princesses in the Media
- * reyna coronado, Women and American War Posters
- 62. Reports
- jason hasler, An Ancient Remedy Reexamined
- eleanor j. bader, Homeless on Campus
- * sidney fussell, The Endless, Invisible Persuasion Tactics of the Internet
- * rocio celeste mejia avila, Cyberloafing: Distraction or Motivation?
- 63. Arguments
- alex weiss, Should Gamers Be Prosecuted for Virtual Stealing?
- * shayna cook, Poor Shaming—But This Time in the School Cafeteria
- * jada jones, Black Mamas’ Lives Matter: The Severe Racial Disparity in Maternal Mortality Rates
- sarah dzubay, An Outbreak of the Irrational
- 64. Evaluations
- danah boyd, Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production
- adrienne green, The Boldness of Roxane Gay’s Hunger
- * antonio de loera-brust, Netflix’s Gentefied is the Best American TV Show about Gentrification
- ashley foster, Polyvore.com: An Evaluation of How Fashion Is Consumed Online
- 65. Literary Analyses
- krithika shrinivas, Blanco and Hughes: Rivers and Identity
- liz moore, Abuse of an Unnamed Wife: Is She Familiar?
- An Album of Literature
- * richard blanco, Complaint of El Río Grande
- * langston hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers
- Theme for English B
- rita dove, The First Book
- charlotte perkins gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
- emily dickinson, A word is dead
- 66. Memoirs
- david sedaris, Us and Them
- * kendell hardison, The Show Must Go On
- malala yousafzai, Who Is Malala?
- judith ortiz cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman
- 67. Profiles
- james hamblin, Living Simply in a Dumpster
- ana pacheco, Street Vendors: Harvest of Dreams
- * chalin xiong, Heaven Is a Place on Earth
- tatiana schlossberg, At This Academy, the Curriculum Is Garbage
- 68. Proposals
- michael chabon, Kid’s Stuff
- dennis baron, Don’t Make English Official—Ban It Instead
- johnna s. keller, The Politics of Stairs
- andreas ghabrial, alana hardy, and ogden playground committee, Proposal for Ogden Playground Project
- * 69. Explorations
- * russell mobley, Justice or Murder?
- * jami attenberg, Is Resilience Overrated?
- edan lepucki, Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them
- * jude romines, A Patchwork Transition
- 70. Remixes
- * ibram x. kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
- * jason reynold, ibram x. kendi, Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You
- * katelyn root, A Path to a Clearer Complexion
- The Ultimate Guide to a Clearer Complexion from the Inside Out
- Creating an Effective Infographic
Part 10: Handbook
(Only in The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Handbook and The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook)
- Sentences
- Elements of a Sentence
- Sentence Fragments
- Comma Splices, Fused Sentences
- Verbs
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Pronouns
- Parallelism
- Coordination, Subordination
- Shifts
- Language
- Appropriate Words
- Precise Words
- Idioms
- Words Often Confused
- Prepositions
- Unnecessary Words
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Articles
- Respectful and Inclusive Language
- Pronouns and Gender
- Englishes
- Punctuation / Mechanics
- Commas
- Semicolons
- End Punctuation
- Quotation Marks
- Apostrophes
- Other Punctuation
- Hyphens
- Capitalization
- Italics
- Abbreviations
- Numbers