Critical Reading and Writing: A Bedford Spotlight Rhetoric (The Bedford Spotlight Reader)

With advice on how to read thoughtfully and analytically, Critical Reading and Writing helps you build key writing skills through instruction on active reading and note-taking and help with analyzing visual and multimodal texts.

Jeff Ousborne (PhD, Boston College) teaches literature and writing courses at Suffolk University. He is the editor of Reading Pop Culture: A Portable Anthology (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2013) and author of Critical Reading and Writing: A Bedford Spotlight Rhetoric (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2014). The former music editor at Details magazine, he has also written for The Boston Phoenix, Life, Maxim, Mens Fitness, Entertainment Weekly, CMJ Music Monthly, Boston Magazine, Esquire, and other publications.