Research Catalog

Title

The Norton Reader : an Anthology of Nonfiction / Melissa A. Goldthwaite, general editor, Saint Joseph's University ; Joseph Bizup, Boston University ; John C. Brereton, University of Massachusetts, Boston ; Anne E. Fernald, Fordham University ; Linda H. Peterson, Late of Yale University.

Publication

• New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goldthwaite, Melissa A., 1972-
• Bizup, Joseph, 1966-
• Brereton, John C., 1943-
• Fernald, Anne E.
• Peterson, Linda H.

Description

lxi, 641 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

The Norton Reader features the largest and most diverse collection of essays, from classic to contemporary--155 in the Full edition, 95 in the Shorter. With 60 new essays almost all written in the last decade, a new ebook option, and a unique companion website that makes the book searchable by theme, genre, rhetorical mode, author, keyword--and more, the Fourteenth Edition is ideal for today?s composition classes.

Subject

• College readers
• English language > Rhetoric > Problems, exercises, etc
• Exposition (Rhetoric) > Problems, exercises, etc
• Report writing > Problems, exercises, etc
• English language > Rhetoric
• Exposition (Rhetoric)
• Report writing

Genre/Form

Problems and exercises.

Note

• "Shorter 14th edition, MLA update"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Preface to the Shorter Fourteenth Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading and Writing with The Norton Reader.
• PERSONAL ACCOUNTS -- Joan Didion / On Going Home -- Maya Angelou / Graduation -- Lars Eighner / On Dumpster Diving -- Alice Walker / Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self -- Joey Franklin / Working at Wendy's.
• PROFILES -- Scott Russell Sanders / Under the Influence -- Annie Dillard / from an American Childhood -- Toni Morrison / Strangers -- Judith Ortiz Cofer / More Room -- Ian Frazier / Take the F -- E.B. White / Once More to the Lake.
• GENDER AND HUMAN NATURE -- Anna Quindlen / Between the Sexes, a Great Divide -- Sojourner Truth / Ain't I a Woman? -- Roxane Gay / A Tale of Three Coming Out Stories -- Henry Petroski / Falling Down Is Part of Growing Up -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross / On the Fear of Death.
• CULTURAL ANALYSIS -- Annie Leonard / The Story of Bottled Water -- Tom Bissell / Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter -- Bill McKibben / The Case for Single-Child Families -- Jessica Mitford / Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. / In the Kitchen -- Brent Staples / Black Men and Public Space.
• FOOD -- Marion Nestle / Utopian Dream: A New Farm Bill -- JJ Goode / Single-Handed Cooking -- M.F.K. Fisher / Young Hunger -- Lad Tobin / Here Everything Is Possible -- Dan Barry / Back When a Chocolate Puck Tasted, Guiltily, Like America -- Chris Wiewiora / This Is Tossing.
• SPORTS -- Roger Angell / The Interior Stadium -- Michael Lewis / from The Blind Side -- David Halberstam / Jordan's Moment -- Maya Angelou / Champion of the World -- Joyce Carol Oates / Rape and the Boxing Ring.
• OP-EDS -- Anna Quindlen / Stuff Is Not Salvation -- Tim Kreider / The "Busy" Trap -- Molly Ivins / Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns -- David Epstein / Sports Should Be Child's Play -- Jane McGonigal / Be a Gamer, Save the World -- Dan Barber / What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong.
• EDUCATION -- Frederick Douglass / Learning to Read -- Lynda Barry / The Sanctuary of School -- Gerald Graff / Hidden Intellectualism -- Jonathan Kozol / Fremont High School -- Caroline Bird / College Is a Waste of Time of Money -- William Zinsser / College Pressures -- Mike Rose Blue-Collar Brilliance.
• LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION -- Maxine Hong Kingston / Tongue-Tied -- Richard Rodriguez / Aria --! Gloria Anzaldua / How to Tame a Wild Tongue -- Benjamin Franklin / Learning to Write -- Stephen King / On Writing -- George Orwell / Politics and the English Language.
• NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- John McPHee / Under the Snow -- Brian Doyle / Joyas Voladoras -- Chief Seattle / Letter to President Pierce, 1855 -- Terry Tempest Williams / The Clan of One-Breasted Women.
• MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY -- Nicholas Carr / Is Google Making Us Stupid? -- Eula Biss / Time and Distance Overcome -- Tasneem Raja / Is Coding the New Literacy? -- Judith Newman / To Siri, with Love: How One Boy wtih Autism Became BFF with Apple's Siri -- Dennis Baron / Facebook Multiplies Genders but Offers Users the Same Three Tired Pronouns.
• ETHICS -- Mark Twain / Advice to Youth -- Peter Singer / What Should a Billionaire Give--and What Should You? -- Atul Gawande / When Doctors Make Mistakes -- Michael Pollan / An Animal's Place -- Sallie Tisdale / We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story -- David Eagleman / The Brain on Trial.
• HISTORY AND POLITICS -- George Orwell / Shooting an Elephant -- Jonathan Swift / A Modest Proposal -- Niccolo Machiavelli / The Morals of the Prince -- Henry David Thoreau / The Battle of the Ants -- Thomas Jefferson and Others / The Declaration of Independence -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions -- Abraham Lincoln / Second Inaugural Address -- John F. Kennedy / Inaugural Address.
• SCIENCE -- Thomas S. Kuhn / The route to Normal Science -- Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow / The (Elusive) Theory of Everything -- Stephen Jay Gould / Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs -- Rebecca Skloot / The Woman in the Photograph -- Alan Lightman / Our Place in the Universe: Face to Face with the Infinite.
• LITERATURE AND THE ARTS -- Eudora Welty / One Writer's Beginnings -- Vladimir Nabokov / Good Readers and Good Writers -- Virginia Woolf / In Search of a Room of One's Own -- Michael Chabon / Kid's Stuff -- Scott McCloud / from Understanding Comics -- Michael Hamad / Song Schematics.
• PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION -- Langston Hughes / Salvation -- Barack Obama / Eulogy for Clementa Pinckney -- Christopher Hitchens / When the King Saved God -- Henry David Thoreau / Where I Lived, and What I Lived For -- Virginia Woolf / The Death of the Moth -- Annie Dillard / Sight into Insight -- Plato / The Allegory of the Cave -- Jesus / Parables of the Kingdom -- Zen Parables / Muddy Road, A Parable, Learning to Be Silent.

Call Number

PE1122

ISBN

• 0393617416
• 9780393617412

OCLC

986222609

Title

The Norton Reader : an Anthology of Nonfiction / Melissa A. Goldthwaite, general editor, Saint Joseph's University ; Joseph Bizup, Boston University ; John C. Brereton, University of Massachusetts, Boston ; Anne E. Fernald, Fordham University ; Linda H. Peterson, Late of Yale University.

Publisher

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Edition

Shorter fourteenth edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Goldthwaite, Melissa A., 1972- editor.

Bizup, Joseph, 1966- editor.

Brereton, John C., 1943- editor.

Fernald, Anne E., editor.

Peterson, Linda H., editor.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PE1122 .N68 2017