Read by millions of students since it was first published in 1965, The Norton Reader is the best selling collection of its kind. With readings in a wide variety of genres, subjects, and styles, it offers the largest and most thoughtfully chosen collection of essays for composition students today. The Twelfth Edition has been carefully revised, with 25 percent of its readings new and an extensive new introduction to reading and writing with guidelines to all the elements cited in the WPA Outcomes Statement. (Publisher comments).

Index of rhetorical modes. -Personal report. Prose forms: journals. -People, places. -Human nature. -Cultural critique. Prose forms: op-eds. -Education. -Language and communication. An album of styles. -Nature and the environment. -Ethics. Prose forms: apothegms. -History. -Politics and government. -Science. -Literature and the arts. Prose form: parables. -Philosophy and religion.