Richard Bullock (Ph.D., University of Virginia) is a professor of English at Wright State University, where
he directs the writing programs and serves as assistant chair of the English department. His scholarship and teaching
focus on the teaching of writing in college and secondary school. The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary,
which he coedited with John Trimbur and Charles I. Schuster, won the 1993 Conference on College Composition and
Communication Book Award.
Maureen Daly Goggin (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University) is the Associate Chair of the English Department at Arizona
State University, where she has also directed several of the writing programs and the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric,
Composition, and Linguistics. She recently received the ASU Alumni Association Faculty Teaching Award and is the
author of Authoring a Discipline: Scholarly Journals and the Post-World War II Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition
(2000).
Summary
Fully updated 2009 MLA documentation guidelines with revised templates that show students how to cite sources
using the current style.
"The Norton Field Guide is one of the best rhetorics I've seen at achieving essential coverage and brevity.
It gives guidance to new instructors and flexibility to others. The readings are great."
Table of Contents
Preface
How to Use This Book
Part 1 Rhetorical Situations
1 Purpose
2 Audience
3 Genre
4 Stance
5 Media / Design
Part 2 Genres
6 Writing a Literacy Narrative
1. *MARJORIE AGOSÍN, Always Living in Spanish
2. RICHARD BULLOCK, How I Learned about the Power of Writing
3. SHANNON NICHOLS, �Proficiency�
7 Analyzing a Text
1. *GINIA BELLAFANTE, In the 24 World, Family Is the Main Casualty
2. WILLIAM SAFIRE, A Spirit Reborn
3. DOUG LANTRY, �Stay Sweet As You Are�
8 Reporting Information
1. *SUSAN STELLIN, The Inevitability of Bumps
2. *JAMES FALLOWS, Throwing Like a Girl
3. JEFFREY DEROVEN, The Greatest Generation
9 Arguing a Position
1. *GARY TAUBES, What If It�s All Been a Big Fat Lie?
2. LAWRENCE LESSIG, Some Like It Hot
3. *JOANNA MACKAY, Organ Sales Will Save Lives
10 Abstracts
11 Annotated Bibliographies
1. MICHAEL BENTON, MARK DOLAN, REBECCA ZISCH, Teen Film$
2. *JESSICA ANN OLSON, Global Warming
12 Evaluations
1. *ALI HEINEKAMP, Juno: Not Just Another Teen Movie
13 Lab Reports
1. SARAH THOMAS, The Effect of Biofeedback Training
14 Literary Analyses
1. STEPHANIE HUFF, Metaphor and Society in Shelley�s �Sonnet�
15 Memoirs
1. RICK BRAGG, All Over But the Shoutin�
16 Profiles
1. *LAURA M. HOLSON, Rural Idaho Town Seeks to Turn Film�s Cult Status into Prosperity
17 Proposals
1. *MICHAEL GRANOF, Course Requirement: Extortion
2. TOPIC PROPOSALS
3. JENNIFER CHURCH, Biodiversity Loss and Its Effect on Medicine
18 Reflections
1. *JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, My Life as a Dog
19 Résumés and Job Letters
20 Mixing Genres
1. *ANNA QUINDLEN, Write for Your Life
Part 3 Processes
21 Writing as Inquiry
22 Collaborating
23 Generating Ideas and Text
24 Drafting
25 Assessing Your Own Writing
26 Getting Response and Revising
27 Editing and Proofreading
28 Compiling a Portfolio
Part 4 Strategies
29 Beginning and Ending
30 Guiding Your Reader
31 Analyzing Causes and Effects
32 Arguing
33 Classifying and Dividing
34 Comparing and Contrasting
35 Defining
36 Describing
37 Dialogue
38 Explaining Processes
39 Narrating
40 Reading Strategies
41 Taking Essay Exams
Part 5 Doing Research
42 Developing a Research Plan
43 Finding Sources
44 Evaluating Sources
45 Synthesizing Ideas
46 Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
47 Acknowledging Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism
48 Documentation
49 MLA Style
50 APA Style
Part 6 Media / Design
51 Print Text
52 Spoken Text
53 Electronic Text
Part 7 Readings
54 Literacy Narratives
1. TANYA BARRIENTOS, Se Habla Español
2. AMY TAN, Mother Tongue
3. *MARINA NEMAT, The Secondhand Bookseller
4. MALCOLM X, Literacy Behind Bars
5. *ALISON BECHDEL, The Canary-Colored Caravan of Death
55 Textual Analyses
1. DENISE NOE, Parallel Worlds: The Similarities (and Differences) of Country and Western and Rap
2. KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Lurid Numbers on Glossy Pages!
3. *JAMES WOOD, Victory Speech
4. *GREGORY HOADLEY, Classic Nuance: Simon Hall at Indiana University
5. DIANA GEORGE, Changing the Face of Poverty
56 Reports
1. ELEANOR J. BADER, Homeless on Campus
2. *JONATHAN KOZOL, Fremont High School
3. *MIKE STOBBE, First U,S, Count Finds 1 in 200 Kids Are Vegetarian
4. *ALINA TUGEND, Multitasking Can Make You Lose . . . Um . . . Focus
5. DARA MAYERS, Our Bodies, Our Lives
57 Arguments
1. *AMY GOLDWASSER, What�s the Matter with Kids Today
2. STEPHEN L. CARTER, Just Be Nice
3. *BARACK OBAMA, Election Night Remarks
4. MAGGIE CUTLER, Whodunit�The Media?
5. GRANT PENROD, Anti-Intellectualism: Why We Hate the Smart Kids
6. GREGORY MANTSIOS, Class in America�2003
58 Evaluations
1. *DAVID POGUE, No Keyboard? And You Call This a Blackberry?
2. *SETH SCHIESEL,Playing God, the Home Game
3. MICHIKO KAKUTANI, The End of Life As She Knew It
4. *A. O. SCOTT, 007 Is Back, and He�s Brooding
5. *SARAH WILDMAN, Caught in the Ayatollah�s Web
59 Literary Analyses
1. PHILIP NEL, Fantasy, Mystery, and Ambiguity
2. *PETER N. GOGGIN, �Enjoy Illusions, Lad, and the Let the Rocks be Rocks�: Le Guin�s A Wizard of Earthsea
3. PATRICIA HAMPL, The Invention of Autobiography: Augustine�s Confessions
4. LESLIE MARMON SILKO, Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
5. WILLOW D. CRYSTAL, �One of us . . .�: Concepts of the Private and the Public in �A Rose for Emily�
6. An Album of Literature
7. WILLIAM FAULKNER, A Rose for Emily
8. RITA DOVE, First Book
9. *JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA, Count-time
10. *LANGSTON HUGHES, Theme from English B
60 Memoirs
1. DAVID SEDARIS, Us and Them
2. *ALBERTO ÁLVARO RÍOS, The March of the Altar Boy Army
3. *LILLIAN SMITH, When I Was a Child
4. VALERIE STEIKER, Our Mother�s Face
5. HENRY LOUIS GATES JR., A Giant Step
61 Profiles
1. *ROB BAKER, Jimmy Santiago Baca: Poetry as Lifesaver
2. *SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, Camp Leads a Drumbeat for a Marching Band�s Style
3. NICHOLAS HOWE, Writing Home: High Street
4. JOAN DIDION, Georgia O�Keeffe
5. SEAN SMITH, Johnny Depp: Unlikely Superstar
62 Proposals
1. DENNIS BARON, Don�t Make English Official�Ban It Instead
2. PETER SINGER, The Singer Solution to World Poverty
3. *H. STERLING BURNETT, A Modest Proposal to Improve Forest Management
4. HEIDI POLLOCK, You Say You Want a Resolution?
5. *MEGAN HOPKINS, Training the Next Teachers for America
63 Reflections
1. *DAVE BARRY, Guys vs. Men
2. GEETA KOTHARI, If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?
3. ZORA NEALE HURSTON, How it Feels to be Colored Me
4. *DIANE DEERHEART RAYMOND, Strawberry Moon
5. JOAN DIDION, Grief
64 Multi-Genre Texts
1. *RUTH BEHAR, The Anthropologist�s Son
2. *JAY PARINI, Of Value and Values: Warren Buffett and the American Dream
3. *PETER J. BOYER, Eviction: The Day They Came for Addie Polk�s House
4. *HAL NIEDZVIECKI, Facebook in a Crowd
5. *NICHOLAS CARR, Is Google Making Us Stupid?
