The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader

"The Bedford Guide for College Writers" plunges students into active learning right from the beginning, whether their writing class meets on campus or online. This new edition expands active learning into reflection, helping students engage with their own writing process to gain a deeper understanding that will serve them throughout their writing lives.

The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader

X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, Marcia F. Muth

Bedford/St. Martin's

2009

Abstract

"The Guide" contains a process-oriented rhetoric, a thematic reader, a research manual, and a handbook, giving students everything they need for success in writing, all in one affordable book. Students are provided frequent opportunities to experiment and apply the skills presented, including Learning by Doing activities, Responding to an Image practices, and engaging assignments that all help students make important writing skills their own. "The Bedford Guide" helps students to be the confident, resourceful, and independent writers they will need to be. With an expanded Launchpad full of activities built to enhance the book s content online, reading comprehension quizzes, diagnostic quizzes and much more, the eleventh edition extends active learning online, offering students more opportunities to build deeper awareness of their own writing processes.
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Table of contents:

Book 1: A WRITER’S GUIDE
Introduction: Writing in College
Part One: A College Writer’s Processes
1. Writing Processes
2. Reading Processes
3. Critical Thinking Processes
Part Two: A Writer’s Situations
4. Recalling an Experience
5. Observing a Scene
6. Interviewing a Subject
7. Comparing and Contrasting
8. Explaining Causes and Effects
9. Taking a Stand
10. Proposing a Solution
11. Evaluating and Reviewing
12. Supporting a Position with Sources
Part Three: Other Writing Situations
13. Responding to Literature
14. Responding to Visual Representations
15. Writing Online
16. Writing and Presenting Under Pressure
17. Writing in the Workplace
Part Four: A Writer’s Strategies
18. Strategies: A Case Study
19. Strategies for Generating Ideas
20. Strategies for Stating a Thesis and Planning
21. Strategies for Drafting
22. Strategies for Developing
23. Strategies for Revising and Editing
24. Strategies for Writing in Future Courses
Book 2: A WRITER’S READER
Introduction: Reading to Write
25. Family
26. Gender
27. Popular Culture
28. Language
29. The Good Life

Citation

X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, Marcia F. Muth. The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008.

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