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The Bedford Reader
by X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, Jane E. Aaron, Ellen Kuhl Repetto
15th Edition
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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| Print ISBN | 9781319331795 |
| eText ISBN | 9781319485610 |
| Publisher | Bedford/St. Martin's |
| Publishing Year | 2022 |
| Edition | 15th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 800 |
The Bedford Reader, 15th Edition, is a composition reader designed to assist student writers with adaptable, practical frameworks for rhetorical methods across diverse writing contexts. The volume connects critical reading habits with core academic writing and creative writing instruction across postsecondary English curricula.
Initial chapters emphasize learning from other writers through critical reading, followed by comprehensive modules covering specific modes of development. Students examine techniques for narrative storytelling, sensory description, pointing to instances through examples, and setting concepts side by side in comparison and contrast. Further chapters detail step-by-step process analysis, slicing topics into parts through division, sorting items into kinds through classification, asking why through cause and effect, tracing boundaries via definition, and stating proposals in argument and persuasion.
To connect professional craft with student exercises, the text incorporates perspectives from established authors for student writers within the feature titled Writers on Writing. This organization provides structured support for students analyzing assigned texts and applying rhetorical patterns to their own drafts.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: CRITICAL READING: Learning from Other Writers
- • READING ACTIVELY
- • NANCY MAIRS Disability (annotated essay)
- • DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING
- • Checklist for critical reading
- • ANALYZING WRITTEN WORKS
- • Checklist for analyzing a written work
- • EXAMINING VISUAL IMAGES
- • Checklist for examining an image
- • Visual Image: from “A Marathon Survivor Starts Over,” photo essay by Josh Haner
Chapter 2: THE WRITING PROCESS: Discovery and Drafting
- • ASSESSING THE WRITING SITUATION
- • DISCOVERING IDEAS
- • DRAFTING
- • A STUDENT ESSAY-IN-PROGRESS
Chapter 3: THE WRITING PROCESS: Reviewing and Revising
- • REVIEWING A DRAFT
- • REVISING IN STAGES
- • Checklist for peer review and revision
- • INTEGRATING EVIDENCE
- • A STUDENT ESSAY-IN-PROGRESS
Chapter 4: THE WRITING PROCESS: Editing
- • USING EFFECTIVE LANGUAGE
- • Checklist for editing
- • CRAFTING CLEAR AND ENGAGING SENTENCES
- • FIXING COMMON ERRORS
- • A STUDENT ESSAY-IN-PROGRESS
- • ROSIE ANAYA Mental Illness on Television (annotated student essay)
Chapter 5: NARRATION: Telling a Story
- • Visual Image: Proposal, drawing by Demetri Martin
- • THE METHOD
- • THE PROCESS
- • Focus on verbs
- • How to organize a narrative
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising a narrative
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: A POLICE LOG
- • Scott Beltran from Ride-Along Report (annotated student writing)
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • Healthcare
- • OLIVER SACKS Cold Storage
- • Oliver Sacks on Writing
- • JONATHAN BETHARDS Code Three (student essay)
- • AMY TAN Fish Cheeks
- • Amy Tan on Writing
- • MAYA ANGELOU Champion of the World
- • Maya Angelou on Writing
- • DAVID TREUER 22 Vision
- • SHIRLEY JACKSON The Lottery (short story)
- • Shirley Jackson on Writing
- • ADDITIONAL WRITING TOPICS
Chapter 6: DESCRIPTION: Writing with Your Senses
- • Visual Image: Busy Day, photograph by Serena Pallaro
- • THE METHOD
- • THE PROCESS
- • How to organize a description
- • Focus on specific and concrete language
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising a description
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: A FIELD OBSERVATION
- • Nick Fiorelli from Teaching Methodologies at Child’s Play Preschool (annotated student writing)
- • SHONDA RHIMES My Summer of Scooping Ice Cream
- • CLINT SMITH Red Hat Cell Block
- • Clint Smith on Writing
- • BARRY LOPEZ The Cape Crozier Penguins
- • Barry Lopez on Writing
- • JOYCE CAROL OATES Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942 (poem)
- • Visual Image: Nighthawks, painting by Edward Hopper
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • FATHERS
- • BRAD MANNING Arm Wrestling with My Father (student essay)
- • Brad Manning on Writing
- • E. B. WHITE Once More to the Lake
- • ADDITIONAL WRITING TOPICS
Chapter 7: EXAMPLE: Pointing to Instances
- • Visual Image: Costumes to Scare Millennials, cartoon by Sarah Andersen
- • THE METHOD
- • THE PROCESS
- • Focus on sentence variety
- • How to organize examples
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising an example essay
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: A JOB-APPLICATION LETTER
- • Susan Churchill E-mail to Exeter Hospital (annotated student writing)
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • RACISM
- • BRENT STAPLES Black Men and Public Space
- • Brent Staples on Writing
- • GRACE TALUSAN Yellow Children
- • Visual Image: Grace’s High School Senior Portrait, photograph of the author
- • ANNA QUINDLEN Homeless
- • Anna Quindlen on Writing
- • ZANE RASSLER Looking Back (student essay)
- • Zane Rassler on Writing
- • CRISTINA HENRÍQUEZ Everything Is Far from Here (short story)
- • ADDITIONAL WRITING TOPICS
Chapter 8: COMPARISON AND CONTRAST: Setting Things Side by Side
- • Visual Image: Excerpt from Fun Home, graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel
- • THE METHOD
- • THE PROCESS
- • How to organize a comparison-and-contrast essay
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising a comparison-and-contrast essay
- • Focus on parallelism
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: AN EVALUATION
- • Clarissa del Re Zoom Classes Are Inherently More Challenging (annotated student writing)
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • ENDANGERED SPECIES
- • JOURDAN IMANI KEITH At Risk
- • Jourdan Imani Keith on Writing
- • TED CHIANG The Great Silence (short story)
- • Visual Images: from The Great Silence, video installation by Allora & Calzadilla
- • SUZANNE BRITT Neat People vs. Sloppy People
- • Suzanne Britt on Writing
- • DAVID SEDARIS Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa
- • David Sedaris on Writing
- • J. OWEN MURPHY Climate Change: Pole Pole (documented student essay)
- • J. Owen Murphy on Writing
- • FATEMA MERNISSI Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem
- • ADDITIONAL WRITING TOPICS
Chapter 9: PROCESS ANALYSIS: Explaining Step by Step
- • Visual Image: Fabulous Monggo!, illustration by Malaka Gharib
- • THE METHOD
- • THE PROCESS
- • How to organize a process analysis
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising a process analysis
- • Focus on consistency
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: A LAB REPORT
- • Victor Khoury from DNA Extraction (annotated student writing)
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • WRITING
- • ANNE LAMOTT Shitty First Drafts
- • KOJI FRAHM How to Write an A Paper (student essay)
- • Koji Frahm on Writing
- • MARY ROACH When Animals Attack
- • Mary Roach on Writing
- • JUSTIN TORRES The Way We Read Now (short story)
- • JESSICA MITFORD Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
- • Jessica Mitford on Writing
- • ADDITIONAL WRITING TOPICS
Chapter 10: DIVISION OR ANALYSIS: Slicing into Parts
- • Visual Image: Deconstructing Lunch, cartoon by Roz Chast
- • THE METHOD
- • THE PROCESS
- • How to organize a division or analysis essay
- • Focus on source material
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising a division or analysis essay
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: A CRITICAL READING
- • Rachel O’Connor from A Question of Fairness: “The Lottery” as Social Commentary (annotated student writing)
- • JESSE WARD What PTSD Looks Like (documented student essay)
- • Visual Image: Brian Scott Ostrom, photograph by Craig F. Walker
- • NATALIE DIAZ They Don’t Love You Like I Love You (poem)
- • BARBARA B. PARSONS Whistling in the Dark
- • Barbara B. Parsons on Writing
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • CONSUMER CULTURE
- • JOHN GREEN Piggly Wiggly
- • John Green on Writing
- • ZADIE SMITH Find Your Beach
- • Visual Image: Find Your Beach, advertisement by Corona
- • Zadie Smith on Writing
- • ADDITIONAL WRITING TOPICS
Chapter 11: CLASSIFICATION: Sorting into Kinds
- • Visual Image: from They Called Us Enemy, graphic memoir by George Takei
- • THE METHOD
- • THE PROCESS
- • Focus on paragraph development
- • How to organize a classification
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising a classification
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: A RÉSUMÉ
- • Susan Churchill Résumé (annotated student writing)
- • SANDRA CISNEROS And Some More (short story)
- • Sandra Cisneros on Writing
- • JULIET CORWIN The Lonely World between the Hearing and the Deaf (student essay)
- • JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS Not Black, Not White
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • FAILURES TO COMMUNICATE
- • DEBORAH TANNEN But What Do You Mean?
- • Deborah Tannen on Writing
- • WILLIAM LUTZ The World of Doublespeak
- • William Lutz on Writing
- • ADDITIONAL WRITING TOPICS
Chapter 12: CAUSE AND EFFECT: Asking Why
- • Visual Image: Bright Nights, infographic by Lucy Conklin
- • THE METHOD
- • THE PROCESS
- • How to organize a cause-and-effect analysis
- • Focus on clarity and conciseness
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising a cause-and-effect essay
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: AN OPINION COLUMN
- • Adya Mohapatra The Warped Transformation of Cancel Culture (annotated student writing)
- • LANGSTON HUGHES Harlem (poem)
- • Langston Hughes on Writing
- • Visual Image: First Draft with Hand-written Revisions, photograph by the Langston Hughes Papers Digital Collections
- • MARY KILLEEN McCANS Signing Their Lives Away (documented student essay)
- • Mary Killeen McCans on Writing
- • DEREK THOMPSON What Makes Things Cool
- • Visual Image: Raymond Loewy, illustration by Mark Weaver, with photographs by Bernard Hoffman, Jack Garofalo, and Sherman Oaks Antique Mall
- • MALCOLM GLADWELL Little Fish in a Big Pond
- • Malcolm Gladwell on Writing
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • GLOBALIZATION
- • CHITRA DIVAKARUNI Live Free and Starve
- • Chitra Divakaruni on Writing
- • JARED DIAMOND The Global Perils of Inequality
- • ADDITIONAL WRITING TOPICS
Chapter 13: DEFINITION: Tracing Boundaries
- • Visual Image: Friend, artwork by Jonny Sun
- • THE METHOD
- • THE PROCESS
- • How to organize a definition
- • Focus on unity
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising a definition
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: AN ESSAY EXAM
- • Martin Ward Civil Liberties (annotated student writing)
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • PRIVILEGE
- • TAL FORTGANG Checking My Privilege (student essay)
- • Tal Fortgang on Writing
- • ROXANE GAY Peculiar Benefits
- • Roxane Gay on Writing
- • EMILY DICKINSON “Hope” is the thing with feathers (poem)
- • RICHARD RODRIGUEZ X: The Neutering of the Spanish Tongue
- • N. SCOTT MOMADAY The Sacred Spell of Words
- • Visual Images: Emily Spear; Carnegie, Oklahoma; photographs by Maddie McGarvey
- • N. Scott Momaday on Writing
- • ADDITIONAL WRITING TOPICS
Chapter 14: ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION: Stating Opinions and Proposals
- • Visual Image: Corporate America Flag, image from Adbusters Media Foundation
- • THE METHOD
- • Focus on tone
- • THE PROCESS
- • How to organize an argument
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising an argument
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: A PROPOSAL
- • Natalie Dowzicky Don’t Leave White Colleges, Pay Your Elite Student Athletes (annotated student writing)
- • ELLY VINTIADIS Mass Shootings and the Myth of the Violent Mentally Ill (annotated essay)
- • Elly Vintiadis on Writing
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • HOW CAN FAMILY IMMIGRATION POLICY BE REFORMED?
- • LINDA CHAVEZ Supporting Family Values
- • Linda Chavez on Writing
- • MARIE MYUNG-OK LEE I Was an Anchor Baby
- • GROUPED SELECTIONS
- • IS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT MORALLY DEFENSIBLE?
- • DAVID B. MUHLHAUSEN How the Death Penalty Saves Lives
- • SEMON FRANK THOMPSON What I Learned from Executing Two Men
- • JESSICA BLANK AND ERIK JENSEN from The Exonerated (documentary play)
- • Visual Image: The Exonerated, poster for the Secret Theater
- • Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen on Writing
- • SHOULD FREEDOM OF SPEECH BE LIMITED?
- • SARAH HEMPHILL What Happened to Free Speech on College Campuses? (documented student essay)
- • Sarah Hemphill on Writing
- • AZIZ HUQ The Conservative Case against Banning Critical Race Theory
- • JULIA SERANO Free Speech and the Paradox of Tolerance
- • Julia Serano on Writing
- • ADDITIONAL WRITING TOPICS
Chapter 15: MIXING THE METHODS: Combining the Patterns of Development
- • Visual Image: Not Milk, advertisement by Oatly
- • THE METHODS
- • THE PROCESS
- • Focus on coherence
- • How to organize an essay using multiple methods
- • Checklist for reviewing and revising a mixed-methods essay
- • STUDENT CASE STUDY: AN OPEN LETTER
- • Angela Dziuba A Response to Tal Fortgang (annotated student writing)
- • JOAN DIDION Earthquakes (annotated essay)
- • Joan Didion on Writing
- • PAIRED SELECTIONS
- • TRANSCENDENTALISM
- • HENRY DAVID THOREAU What I Lived For
- • Henry David Thoreau on Writing
- • LUIS ALBERTO URREA Barrio Walden
- • Luis Alberto Urrea on Writing
- • ISABELLA LOH The Blue Death (documented student essay)
- • LOUISE ERDRICH The Crest (short story)
- • Louise Erdrich on Writing
- • JONATHAN SWIFT A Modest Proposal
Chapter 16: RESEARCH: Finding and Using Sources
- • CONDUCTING RESEARCH
- • Checklist for evaluating sources
- • WRITING WITH SOURCES
Chapter 17: MLA STYLE: Documenting Sources in the Humanities
- • SOURCE CITATION USING MLA STYLE
- • A SAMPLE RESEARCH PAPER IN MLA STYLE
- • MARGARET LUNDBERG Eating Green (annotated student essay)
Chapter 18: APA STYLE: Documenting Sources in the Social Sciences
- • SOURCE CITATION USING APA STYLE
- • A SAMPLE RESEARCH PAPER IN APA STYLE
- • ERIC KIM The Brain That Changes (annotated student essay)
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