| Title | : | The Norton Reader (Shorter Fifteenth Edition) |
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| ISBN | : | 0393441296 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780393441291 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 656 |
| Publication | : | Published July 1, 2020 |
The Norton Reader offers 150 ways to inspire your students to think and write about ideas and issues that matter. The most diverse selection of essays, carefully curated, are now more closely connected with new chapter introductions. Essays on timely issues and ideas will engage students, and trusted apparatus will help them read and write. The new edition features more than 60 new contemporary essays, three new chapters, and a new framework for connecting the selections. This purchase offers access to the digital ebook only.
The Norton Reader (Shorter Fifteenth Edition) Reviews
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Only read selected readings for class
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As always, The Norton reader has aimed to uphold a tradition of anthologizing excellent prose, starting with Arthur Eastman, the founding editor, who insisted that essays be selected for the quality of their writing. As he put it, "Excellence would be their pillar of smoke by day, of fire by night." With this vision, the original editors of The Norton Reader chose classic essays that appealed to modern readers and that are now recognized as comprising the essay canon. We have aimed to continue this practice yet have also adapted the Reader to new pedagogies and have updated it by adding new writers whose work appeals to new generations of student readers. We believe that the essays in this volume are well written, focus on topics that matter, and demonstrate what all of us tell our students about good writing.
The Norton Reader offers the greatest breadth and depth of any composition reader, with an abundance of contemporary essays anchored by classic and canonical selections. For example, a new selection from Tara Westover's beset seller, Educated, appears alongside Frederick Douglass's "Learning to Read" in the Education chapter. And in Self and Society, Kwame Anthony Appiah's op-ed "Go Ahead, Speak For Yourself" is in conversations with Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech "Aint I a Woman".
