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Norton/Write
The Norton/Write Web site is free and open to all readers of Norton composition books and to anyone who wants to be a better writer or researcher. The site includes three easy-to-navigate sections: Writing and Rhetoric, Research and Documentation, and Exercises. Each section includes a variety of practical resources.
Writing Toolbar
A Writing Toolbar provides instant access to parts of The Norton Field Guide to Writing in Microsoft Word. The Toolbar downloads into Word so students can access writing guides, documentation models, help getting started, and more as they write. The Toolbar is downloadable to any PC. Mac users may access the same online sections of the text through the website.
Click the link below to take a tour of The Norton Field Guide to Writing Toolbar Application.
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Student Web Site
www.wwnorton.com/write/fieldguide
The Student Website offers practical help for students, including a downloadable Writing Toolbar which provides instant access to important parts of the textbook as they write and edit documents in Microsoft Word. The site also provides:
- Writing guides for four commonly assigned genres—literacy narratives, arguments, reports, and textual analyses—along with a model student essay for each.
- A portfolio space where students can compile writing and share it with instructors or other students.
- Templates and worksheets for considering rhetorical situations, scheduling research projects, keeping bibliography cards, clustering, and more.
- Complete MLA and APA Guidelines.
A Norton Pocket Guide to Grammar and Punctuation
Dawn Rodriguez, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Myron Tuman, Nicholls State University
ISBN-10: 0-393-92937-X • ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92937-9
This handy pocket-sized guide is available packaged with either version of The Norton Field Guide to Writing.
- Sentences
- 1. Effective sentences
- 2. Errors in sentence wording
- 3. Fragments and comma splices
- Words
- 4. Effective word choice
- 5. Usage glossary
- Grammar
- 6. Verbs
- 7. Pronoun agreement
- 8. Pronoun case
- 9. Adjectives and adverbs
- 10. Grammar tips for multilingual writers
- Punctuation
- 11. End punctuation
- 12. Commas
- 13. Semicolons and colons
- 14. Apostrophes
- 15. Quotation marks
- 16. Other punctuation marks
- Punctuation
- 17. Capitalization
- 18. Italics, abbreviations, and numbers
- 19. Hyphens and spelling
Contents
A Guide to Teaching with the Norton Field Guide to Writing
ISBN-10: 0-393-92661-3 • ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92661-3
A thorough guide to teaching first-year writing—developing a syllabus, interacting with students, facilitating group work, designing writing assignments, assessing student writing, teaching in a computer classroom, helping ESL students, teaching the writing process and various genres, teaching visual rhetoric, and more. For each reading in the Field Guide with Readings, the instructor's manual will offer discussion topics and suggested answers to the study questions.
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