New re-imagined design provides focus and dazzles once again. The simplified design allows students to analyze visual texts and written texts with the same attention and care. Stunning images are centered and framed to encourage students to pause for reflection. One-column texts foster close and critical reading. The fourth edition aims for simplicity, not embellishment, focus and not over-saturation. In our fast-moving world of text messaging and social networking,
Seeing & Writing’s engaging texts and visuals will grab students’ attention and the slower pace and cleaner page will keep it there.
A graphic novel treatment of the writing process includes an eight-page foldout in the introduction and characters that re-occur in each chapter to explain writing challenges in a voice that is both instructive and entertaining.
65 new selections including photographs, advertisements, poems, essays, short stories and screen shots were chosen for their rhetorical variety, their strength as models for student writers, and their varied subject matter.
A new chapter discusses the challenging topic of class. Examples include:
- In arresting photographs and startling facts, Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio expose the compelling international relationship between people and food.
- Yang Liu, with her stark graphics, shows differences in philosophy between the East and the West.
- Barbara Ehrenreich and Steven Johnson offer provocative essays about class in the United States and our favorite pastime — watching television.
A sharper focus on writing. New writing activities and assignments ask students to make connections between and among texts and to consult a variety of outside sources.
- Advice by students, for students. Throughout, student comments on their experiences with college writing are paired with similar quotations from published writers to show that young and old, amateur and professional, all struggle with the same challenges when putting pen to the page.
- More specific Looking Closer units help students learn to frame more specific topics for writing within each chapter’s larger theme.
More digital choices at the Seeing & Writing Student Center, bedfordstmartins.com/seeingandwriting. In one convenient place, you’ll find free and open content — from visual analysis tutorials to reliable research links — as well as
Re:Writing Plus, our growing collection of premium media, now with over 50 brief videos about writing in
Video Central.