The Bedford Reader

1576 Pages·2019·20.078 MB·English

by  X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, Jane E. Aaron, Ellen Kuhl Repetto

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Description
“The front cover
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Helpful Checklists
Checklist for Critical Reading
Questions for Analyzing a Written
Work
Questions for Examining an Image
Questions for Peer Review and
Revision
Questions for Editing
Checklist for Reviewing and
Revising a Narrative
Checklist for Reviewing and
Revising a Description
Checklist for Reviewing and
Revising an Example Essay
Checklist for Reviewing and
Revising a Comparison-and-
Contrast Essay
Checklist for Reviewing and
Revising a Process Analysis
Checklist for Reviewing and
Revising a Division or Analysis
Essay
Checklist for Reviewing and
Revising a Classification
Checklist for Reviewing and
Revising a Cause-and-Effect Essay
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Checklist for Reviewing and
Revising a Definition
Checklist for Reviewing and
Revising an Argument
Questions for Evaluating Sources
A note about the cover: The Bedford Reader has long featured a
cover displaying nature. In keeping with that theme, we’ve chosen
Malvern—an acrylic painting by Paul Powis.
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Methods for Achieving Your
Purpose in Writing
The Bedford Reader centers on common ways of thinking and
writing about all kinds of subjects, from everyday experiences to
public policies to scientific theories. Whatever your purpose in
writing, one or more of these ways of thinking — or methods of
development — can help you discover and shape your ideas in
individual paragraphs or entire papers.
The following list connects various purposes you may have for
writing and the methods for achieving those purposes. The blue
boxes along the right edge of the page correspond to tabs on later
pages where each method is explained.
PURPOSE METHOD
To tell a story about your subject, possibly to Narration
enlighten readers or to explain something to them
To help readers understand your subject through Description
the evidence of their senses — sight, hearing,
touch, smell, taste
To explain your subject with instances that show Example
readers its nature or character
To explain or evaluate your subject by helping Comparison
readers see the similarities and differences and Contrast
between it and another subject
To inform readers how to do something or how Process
something works — how a sequence of actions Analysis
leads to a particular result
To explain a conclusion about your subject by Division or
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showing readers the subject’s parts or elements Analysis
To help readers see order in your subject by Classification
understanding the kinds or groups it can be sorted
into
To tell readers the reasons for or consequences of Cause and
your subject, explaining why or what if Effect
To show readers the meaning of your subject — Definition
its boundaries and its distinctions from other
subjects
To have readers consider your opinion about your Argument
subject or your proposal for it and
Persuasion
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