Highlights
Now with Many More Images
From Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs to billboard art and film stills, the Eleventh Edition pairs over fifty photographs, drawings, paintings, and other images with the essays they accompanied when originally published—showing students how texts and images interact to make meaning.
Now with a Chapter on Spoken Texts
A new prose form chapter on the spoken word collects texts by Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr., David McCullough, and others, each of which presents unique viewpoints on important issues of its time. Varied in subject, style, and historical context, these speeches, sermons, and addresses prompt students to consider how texts written to be heard differ from those written to be read.
25% New Readings
Full Edition: 52 New Selections
Shorter Edition: 30 New Selections
These fresh new essays maintain the Reader’s long-standing balance of classic and contemporary selections. Notable additions include Chang-Rae Lee, Henry David Thoreau, Toni Morrison, Adam Goodheart, and Mary Wollstonecraft, among many others.
Carefully Expanded Advice on Reading and Writing
Reformatted for easier reference, the Eleventh Edition introduction now offers students more practical advice on reading and writing, including strategies for effectively previewing, reading, and summarizing the essays they read, and for carefully planning, drafting, and revising the essays they write.
New—Study Questions for Each Essay
New to the Shorter Eleventh Edition are study questions for each essay. These questions complete an apparatus that includes biographical entries for each author, brief source notes for each essay, and introductions to each prose form chapter. As always, the apparatus in The Norton Reader seeks to provide the resources to help students form their own interpretations rather than imposing one.
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