Both reliable and innovative, 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 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.
Author(s): X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, Marcia F. Muth
Edition: 11
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s
Year: 0
Language: English
Pages: 1858
Cover......Page 2
Title Page......Page 7
Copyright......Page 9
Preface: To the Instructor......Page 11
Rhetorical Contents......Page 57
Selected Visual Contents......Page 65
Features of The Bedford Guide Correlated to the WPA Outcomes Statement......Page 70
Inside LaunchPad for The Bedford Guide......Page 82
Pairing The Bedford Guide with LaunchPad Solo for Readers and Writers......Page 85
How to Use The Bedford Guide......Page 89
A WRITER’S GUIDE......Page 100
Introduction: Writing in College......Page 102
PART ONE A College Writer’s Processes......Page 107
1. Writing Processes......Page 108
2. Reading Processes......Page 132
3. Critical Thinking Processes......Page 168
PART TWO A Writer’s Situations......Page 189
4. Recalling an Experience......Page 190
5. Observing a Scene......Page 224
6. Interviewing a Subject......Page 259
7. Comparing and Contrasting......Page 297
8. Explaining Causes and Effects......Page 332
9. Taking a Stand......Page 362
10. Proposing a Solution......Page 413
11. Evaluating and Reviewing......Page 447
12. Supporting a Position with Sources......Page 475
PART THREE Other Writing Situations......Page 525
13. Responding to Literature......Page 526
14. Responding to Visual Representations......Page 573
15. Writing Online......Page 628
16. Writing and Presenting under Pressure......Page 660
17. Writing in the Workplace......Page 687
PART FOUR A Writer’s Strategies......Page 722
18. Strategies: A Case Study......Page 723
19. Strategies for Generating Ideas......Page 739
20. Strategies for Stating a Thesis and Planning......Page 766
21. Strategies for Drafting......Page 801
22. Strategies for Developing......Page 822
23. Strategies for Revising and Editing......Page 850
24. Strategies for Writing in Future Courses......Page 879
A WRITER’S READER......Page 917
Introduction: Reading to Write......Page 918
25. Family......Page 922
26. Gender......Page 947
27. Popular Culture......Page 972
28. Language......Page 1000
29. The Good Life......Page 1037
A WRITER’S RESEARCH MANUAL......Page 1083
Introduction: The Nature of Research......Page 1085
30. Defining Your Research Project......Page 1088
31. Finding Sources......Page 1110
32. Evaluating Sources......Page 1149
33. Working with Sources......Page 1168
34. Integrating Sources......Page 1196
35. Writing a Research Paper......Page 1219
36. MLA Style for Documenting Sources......Page 1233
37. APA Style for Documenting Sources......Page 1269
A WRITER’S HANDBOOK......Page 1300
Introduction: Grammar, or The Way Words Work......Page 1302
38. Basic Grammar......Page 1306
39. Grammatical Sentences......Page 1344
40. Effective Sentences......Page 1436
41. Word Choice......Page 1493
42. Punctuation......Page 1519
43. Mechanics......Page 1603
Answers for Lettered Exercises......Page 1643
Quick Format Guide......Page 1654
Quick Research Guide......Page 1680
Quick Editing Guide......Page 1706
About the Photographs That Open Parts One through Four......Page 1759
Index......Page 1765
Correction Symbols......Page 1835
Proofreading Symbols......Page 1838
A Guide to the Handbook......Page 1840
