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Student Web site
Web activities encourage students of The Norton Reader to discover new ways to think and write with 30 selected essays. Each set of activities begins with a Biography section that includes links to Web sites that offer information about the essay's author. The Writing Assignments include links to sites that help students research an essay or brainstorm a topic. Finally, a Connections section suggests ways to compare and contrast the essay with other pieces in The Norton Reader.
A downloadable Toolbar features the new 35-page introduction with brief guidelines covering the WPA Outcomes. Students can access the Toolbar online or download it to use as they write and edit documents in Microsoft Word.
Access to the new Norton Composition Hub, which features color-coded MLA citation guidelines, tutorials in avoiding plagiarism and writing research, grammar exercises, and more.
Instructor’s Manual—A Guide to The Norton Reader
Anne Fernald, Fordham University
Melissa Goldthwaite, St. Joseph’s University
Charles Hood, Antelope Valley College
978-0-393-93064-5 • paper
The Guide to The Norton Reader offers excellent contextual information and teaching hooks for each reading, while aiming to help teachers, especially new teachers, with suggestions for what goes on outside the readings: tips on planning a course, suggested in-class activities for when a lesson plan doesn't go as expected, advice for teaching developmental writing, and much more.
Also included for each text in the Reader, the Guide offers:
- An overview of key themes, passages, and strategies
- A "teaching hook"
- Teaching suggestions
- Writing prompts
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