PDF of The Norton Field Guide to Writing

Mother Tongue by Amy Tan

If Black English Isn’t a Language, then Tell Me, What is? by James Baldwin

Looking for Trouble by Catherine Savini

Reading J.M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace” During the Harvey Weinstein Trial by Jia Tolentino

The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders

What Writing Is by Stephen King

The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and the Poetical: Erasures by Solmaz Sharif

Why I Write by George Orwell & Why I Write by Joan Didion

*For reference: Rhetorical Situation Readings

• Rhetorical Situation
• Author and Audience 
• Tone and Purpose
• Genre and Medium
• Stance and Language

For reference: Guidelines for writing a thesis statement