The Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings

Key differences between 4th and 3rd editions

• Period between current and previous publications: 3 years (2016 vs 2013).
• The first edition of the Guide was published in 2008.
• The updated Fourth Ed. consists of 69 chapters and is 16 pages thicker, the precursor contained 66 chapters
• New Part on academic literacies covers new topics:
• Summarizing and responding, amd how write effective summary and response essays
• Developing habits of mind: curiosity, persistence, flexibility, openness, creativity.
• New Chapter 17 on literary analyses in the Genres part.
• New Chapter 64 on literary analyses in the Readings part.
• The Fourth Edition of the Guide includes new readings:
• "Our Declaration" by Danielle Allen
• "The Reason College Costs More than You Think" by Jon Marcus
• "Our Blind Spot about Guns" by Nicholas Kristof
• "F-16 Pilot Was Ready to Give Up Her Life on 9-11" by Steve Hendrix
• "Lost and Found" by Lynda Barry
• "The Reassuring Appeal of 'Weird Al' Yankovic" by Sasha Frere-Jones
• "Our Fear of Immigrants" by Jeremy Adam Smith
• "Wikipedia as a Site of Knowledge Production" by Danah Boyd
• "The Tenacity of Hope" by Natalie Standiford
• "Where Wordplay Trumps Swordplay" by Chris Suellentrop
• "One of us . . .: Concepts of the Private and the Public in A Rose for Emily" by Willow D. Crystal
• "They'll See How Beautiful I Am: 'I, Too' and the Harlem Renaissance" by Irene Morstan
• "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner
• "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin
• "Aunt Jennifer?s Tigers" by Adrienne Rich
• " Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men' eyes" by William Shakespeare
• " A word is dead" by Emily Dickinson
• "My Father Was a Writer" by Andre Dubus III
• "#11187-424" by Piper Kerman
• "Living Simply in a Dumpster" by James Hamblin
• "Maine's First Graffiti Artist" by Marcia Brown
• "At This Academy, the Curriculum Is Garbage" by Tatiana Schlossberg
• "The Case for Kill Switches in Military" by Jonathan Zittrain
• "We Are All Quants Now" by Paula Marantz Cohen
• "A Man and His Cat" by Tim Kreider
• "What My Bike Has Taught Me about White Privilege" by Jeremy Dowsett