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For Students
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 a complete Online Handbook and three easy-to-navigate sections: Writing and Rhetoric, Research and Documentation, and Exercises.
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. In addition to the downloadable Writing Toolbar described above, the site also provides:
- An intuitive, easy-to-use online handbook.
- Writing guides for four commonly assigned genres—literacy narratives, arguments, reports, and textual analyses—along with a model student essay for each.
- Templates and worksheets for considering rhetorical situations, scheduling research projects, keeping bibliography cards, clustering, and more.
- Complete MLA and APA Guidelines.
- 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
For Instructors
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.
WebCT/Blackboard coursepack
Additional instructor resources, including a WebCT/Blackboard coursepack are available at our instructor's site.
Available at no charge to you or your students, this coursepack includes over 1,000 grammar exercises, tutorials on research writing and avoiding plagiarism, pre-and post-diagnostic grammar tests (available in the instructor view only), and more.
For a demo, contact your local Norton Representative .
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