Brief Bedford Reader

Features work by many of the finest nonfiction writers & a few fiction writers. The essays deal with writing & lit. & cut broadly across a college curriculum. You'll find writings on science, history, bus., law, religion, pop culture, women's studies, sociol., educ., commun., the environ., tech., sports, dreams, politics, the media, & minority exper. These 45 selections reveal kinds of reading you will meet in college courses. The essays show you how good writers write. Will encourage you in critical reading -- thoughtful, open-minded, questioning reading. Mulling over the views of the writers in this book, figuring out their motives & strategies, agreeing or disagreeing with their ideas, will help you learn to digest & use, in your own writing, what you read & hear.Kennedy, X. J. is the author of 'Brief Bedford Reader', published 1997 under ISBN 9780756778927 and ISBN 0756778921.