Based on feedback from reviewers, the Seventh Edition adds new advice that explores generative AI as well as reading and learning online, new prompts that foster remix and transfer of writing to varied situations, and new readings that provide refreshed models. Explore what’s new and what’s returning in the table of contents below.

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PART 1: ACADEMIC LITERACIES

1. Writing in Academic Contexts    
2. Reading in Academic Contexts     
3. Summarizing and Responding: Where Reading Meets Writing   

NEW BEATRIZ CARDOSO E SOUZA, Let’s Stop Pretending That Expensive College Degrees and Student Loans Aren’t Barriers 

4.  Developing Academic Habits of Mind      
5. EXPANDED Writing and Learning Online   
6. NEW Writing with Generative AI   

PART 2: RHETORICAL SITUATIONS  

7. Purpose   
8. Audience   
9. Genre   
10. Stance   
11. Media / Design   

PART 3: GENRES

12. Writing a Literacy Narrative 

REA KARIM, Becoming an American Girl  
KARLA MARIANA HERRERA GUTIERREZ, Reading, Writing, and Riding   
ANA-JAMILEH KASSFY, Automotive Literacy  

13. Analyzing Texts 

PAT FINN, The Architecture of Inequality: On Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite
DANIELLE ALLEN, Our Declaration  
NEW AIMEE BENDER, What Writers Can Learn from Goodnight Moon  

14. Reporting Information  

RENAE TINGLING, Sleepless Nights of a University Student   
FRANKIE SCHEMBRI, Edible Magic   
NEW MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF, You Don’t Need Words to Calm a Grumpy Kid  

15. Arguing a Position  

NEW BEN WILDAVSKY, Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter  
BRIANNA SCHUNK, Come Look at the Freaks: Examining and Advocating for Disability Theatre  
NEW ROHAN MEHTA, Banning ChatGPT Will Do More Harm Than Good  

16. Annotated Bibliographies and Reviews of Scholarly Literature 

NEW SEAN KELLIHER, Tunesmith Terror Techniques: Identifying Patterns in the Music of Horror Video Games  
KELLY GREEN, Researching Hunger and Poverty   
CAMERON CARROLL, Zombie Film Scholarship: A Review of the Literature  

17. Evaluations  

NEW JOEL ROBINSON, Killers of the Flower Moon Is Not the Story an Osage Would Have Told. You Should Still See It.  

18. Literary Analyses 

KRITHIKA SHRINIVAS, Blanco and Hughes: Rivers and Identity 

RICHARD BLANCO, Complaint of El Río Grande  
LANGSTON HUGHES, The Negro Speaks of Rivers   

19. Personal Narrative   

NEW RYAN MCLENDON, The Definition of Love  

20. Profiles  

NEW KATIA FAROUN, A Crowd, a Question, and a Typewriter 

21. Proposals  

NEW DAVE CHOKSHI, Forget about Living to 100. Let’s Live Healthier Instead.  
CATHERINE THOMS, Social Media and Data Privacy   

22. Explorations   

BRIAN DIEHL, Talking with Granddad  

23. Remixes 

TODD JONES, Rare Earth 

PART 4: FIELDS  

24. Fields of Study   
25. Reading across Fields of Study   
26. Writing in Academic Fields of Study   

PART 5: PROCESSES   

27. Processes of Writing   
28. Writing as Inquiry   
29. Generating Ideas and Text   
30. Organizing Your Writing, Guiding Your Readers   
31. Drafting   
32. Assessing Your Own Writing   
33. Getting Response and Revising   
34. Editing and Proofreading   
35. Compiling a Portfolio   
36. Reflecting on Your Writing 

   PART 6: STRATEGIES  

37. Analyzing Causes and Effects   
38. Arguing   
39. Classifying and Dividing   
40. Comparing and Contrasting   
41. Defining   
42. Describing   
43. Using Dialogue   
44. Explaining Processes   
45. Narrating   
46. Taking Essay Exams   

PART 7: DOING RESEARCH 

47. Getting a Start on Research   
48. Finding Sources   
49. Evaluating Sources   
50. Synthesizing Ideas   
51. Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing   
52. Acknowledging Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism   
53. Documentation   
54. MLA Style   

NEW JACKSON PARELL, Free at Last, Free at Last: Civil War Memory and Civil Rights Rhetoric  

55. APA Style 

ANALISA JOHNSON, The Benefits of Prison Nursery Programs 

PART 8: MEDIA / DESIGN

56. Choosing Media   
57. Designing Text   
58. Using Visuals, Incorporating Sound  
59. Giving Presentations  

NEW GRETA THUNBERG, Our House Is Still on Fire 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Gettysburg Address  

Included in both The Norton Field Guide with Readings and The Norton Field Guide with Readings and Handbook

PART 9: READINGS 

60. Literacy Narratives 

MATT DE LA PEÑA, Sometimes the “Tough Teen” Is Quietly Writing Stories   
TANYA MARIA BARRIENTOS, Se Habla Español   
NEW AVIV AMDUR, My First Language  
NICOLE MILES, Formation of a Caribbean Illustrator   

61. Textual Analyses  

NEW MARK WILSON, The Starbucks Logo Has a Secret You’ve Never Noticed  
DIANA GEORGE, Changing the Face of Poverty   
ISABELLE GILL, Representation of Disney Princesses in the Media   
REYNA M. CORONADO, Women and American War Posters  

62. Reports 

NEW LAURA HAAPIO-KIRK AND GEORGIANA MURARIU, How People Actually Use Their Smartphones  
JASON HASLER, An Ancient Remedy Reexamined   
ELEANOR J. BADER, Homeless on Campus   
ROCIO CELESTE MEJIA AVILA, Cyberloafing: Distraction or Motivation? 

63. Arguments

NEW EMMA BARNES, The Fast and the Fashionable 

SHAYNA COOK, Poor Shaming — but This Time in the School Cafeteria   
JADA JONES, Black Mamas’ Lives Matter: The Severe Racial Disparity in Maternal Mortality Rates  

NEW ARUNA DAS, Flaco and the Ones Who Walk Away

64. Evaluations

NEW AISHA HARRIS, Barbie Review: Sometimes Corporate Propaganda Can Be Fun as Hell  
ADRIENNE GREEN, The Boldness of Roxane Gay’s Hunger   

ANTONIO DE LOERA-BRUST, Netflix’s Gentefied Is the Best American TV Show about Gentrification

NEW JOE LORIO, 2022 Genesis GV70: The Team MVP  

65. Literary Analyses  

MATTHEW MILLER, Frost’s Broken Roads   
LIZ MOORE, Abuse of an Unnamed Wife: Is She Familiar?   

AN ALBUM OF LITERATURE  
ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken   
LANGSTON HUGHES, Theme for English B   
RITA DOVE, The First Book   
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN, The Yellow Wallpaper  
EMILY DICKINSON, A word is dead   

66. Personal Narratives 

NEW JEFF MWATHI, Growing Up Obese  
KENDELL HARDISON, The Show Must Go On   
MALALA YOUSAFZAI, Who Is Malala?   
NEW SOPHIA ROWE, Gentle with the Small Things  

67. Profiles 

NEW CAMRYN TIRICO, Green Spaces, Gray Places  
ANA PACHECO, Street Vendors: Harvest of Dreams   
CHALIN XIONG, Heaven Is a Place on Earth   
NEW ROBERTO JOSÉ ANDRADE FRANCO, Artist “Cimi” Alvarado Teaches History through the Murals of El Segundo Barrio 

68. Proposals  

NEW ALEXANDER NAZARYAN, Rewild the National Mall  
NEW LLOXCI LÓPEZ, Earth Day Should Be Every Day, but Not in the Way You Think   
JOHNNA S. KELLER, The Politics of Stairs   
ANDREAS GHABRIAL, ALANA HARDY, AND OGDEN PLAYGROUND COMMITTEE, Proposal for Ogden Playground Project   

69. Explorations 

RUSSELL MOBLEY, Justice or Murder?   
NEW CHARIS SHIN, What Is Your Name?  
EDAN LEPUCKI, Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them   
JUDE ROMINES, A Patchwork Transition   

70. Remixes 

IBRAM X. KENDI, Selection from Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America   
JASON REYNOLDS AND IBRAM X. KENDI, Selection from Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You  
KATELYN ROOT, A Path to a Clearer Complexion   
KATELYN ROOT, The Ultimate Guide to Improving Your Complexion from the Inside Out   
KATELYN ROOT, Creating an Effective Infographic   

Included in both The Norton Field Guide with Handbook and The Norton Field Guide with Readings and Handbook

PART 10: HANDBOOK  

Sentences 

S-1 Elements of a Sentence   
S-2 Sentence Fragments   
S-3 Comma Splices, Fused Sentences   
S-4 Verbs   
S-5 Subject-Verb Agreement   
S-6 Pronouns   
S-7 Parallelism   
S-8 Coordination, Subordination   
S-9 Shifts  

Language 

L-1 Well-Chosen Words   
L-2 Precise Words   
L-3 Idioms   
L-4 Words Often Confused   
L-5 Prepositions   
L-6 Unnecessary Words   
L-7 Adjectives and Adverbs   
L-8 Articles   
L-9 Respectful and Inclusive Language   
L-10 Pronouns and Gender   
L-11 Englishes   

Punctuation / Mechanics   

P-1 Commas   
P-2 Semicolons   
P-3 End Punctuation   
P-4 Quotation Marks   
P-5 Apostrophes   
P-6 Other Punctuation   
P-7 Hyphens   
P-8 Capitalization   
P-9 Italics   
P-10 Abbreviations   
P-11 Numbers   

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