The Brief Bedford Reader /

Kennedy, X. J.

The Brief Bedford Reader / X. J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy and Jane E. Aaron - Fifth Edition - Boston, Massachusetts : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1994 - xxviii, 480 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Chapter1. Narration: Telling a Story -- Chapter2. Description: Writing with your senses -- Chapter3.Example: Pointing to instances -- Chapter4. Comparison and Contrast: Setting Things Side by side -- Chapter5. Process, Analysis: Explaining Step by step -- Chapter6. Division or Analysis: Slicing into parts -- Chapter7. Classification: Sorting into kinds -- Chapter8.Cause and effect: Asking Why -- Chapter9. Definition: Tracing a Boundary -- Chapter10. Arguments and Persuasion: Stating Opinions and Proposals .

The Brief Bedford Reader has but a single aim: to get students writing, and writing well. For emulation, we assemble the forty-two best, liveliest essays we can find and arrange them in ten rhetorical chapters.

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COLLEGE READERS

PE 1407 .K35 1994