More emphasis on critical reading and thinking skills. In addition to already valuable reading coverage, a new section in the chapter on reading critically—Reading in the Classroom, in the Community, and in the Workplace—includes visual examples and strategies for reading textbooks, news articles, and workplace communications. Post-reading questions accompanying the professional readings at the back of the book emphasize the reading-writing connection.
Expanded coverage and guidance for developing paragraphs. - New instruction and exercises
help students understand the criteria for strong supporting points and develop those points to fully support a paragraph’s topic sentence.
Streamlined student case studies, using real student models,
now serve not only to teach by example but also to guide students through the writing process, step-by-step, with their own writing.
A new opening chapter—"Writing and College Success"—gives students practical advice, with an emphasis on academic issues such as the difference between formal and informal writing and how to perform well on writing tests.
A new chapter on research helps students avoid plagiarism. Guiding students through writing a research paper, from choosing a topic to documenting sources, the chapter offers practical strategies for crucial activities, including evaluating sources and avoiding plagiarism.
Students receive automatic access to LearningCurve with Focus on Writing. Bedford’s new online adaptive quizzing focuses students on the grammar and writing topics that they need the most help with.