A design that will motivate students to read and re-read. Who doesn’t love thumbing through a magazine or a look-book of swatches for inspiration? The sheer variety of dynamic examples, clean design, and easy reference feel of The Bedford Book of Genres will inspire students to explore new kinds of writing and find topics they want to research and write about.
Guided Readings that map the rhetorical situation and conventions of common genres—in print and online. In a visual reference format that students can easily return to as they compose, annotated Guided Readings in Part One reinforce a simple framework that students can apply as they read and write in any context. Students receive access to 12 additional Guided Readings in e-Pages that take advantage of what the Web can do. See bedfordstmartins.com/bbg/epages.Advice about multimodal composing built around interesting student projects that expand ideas about writing. Guided Process sections follow 3 students as they brainstorm, draft, research, compose, revise, finish, and reflect on their work—step by step. Having a variety of student examples shows what’s possible with multimodal composition and how the book’s simple framework works across contexts and genres.An accessible thematic reader with a cool mix of genres and media. Four final chapters with readings from blogs, advertisements, recipes, articles, to posters and 8 digital texts in e-Pages make clear that genres are dynamic and evolve. Within each chapter, topic clusters show how different genres respond differently to cultural conversations about Identity, The Body, The Environment, and Heroes and Villains. Analysis and writing prompts for each cluster give students practice working with rhetorical concepts. Instructor support for teaching and assessing multimodal composition. The Instructor Manual offers sample syllabi, lesson plans, practice activities, and—perhaps most important—detailed rubrics for assessing student projects. You’ll get solid advice from the authors and teachers from two-year, four-year, large state universities, and small liberal arts colleges as you try new assignments and activities or tweak what you know works.