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Helpful Checklists Checklist for Critical Reading

Questions for Analyzing a Written Work

Questions for Examining an Image

Questions for Peer Review and Revision

Questions for Editing

Checklist for Reviewing and Revising a Narrative

Checklist for Reviewing and Revising a Description

Checklist for Reviewing and Revising an Example Essay

Checklist for Reviewing and Revising a Comparison-and- Contrast Essay

Checklist for Reviewing and Revising a Process Analysis

Checklist for Reviewing and Revising a Division or Analysis Essay

Checklist for Reviewing and Revising a Classification

Checklist for Reviewing and Revising a Cause-and-Effect Essay

Checklist for Reviewing and Revising a Definition

Checklist for Reviewing and Revising an Argument

Questions for Evaluating Sources

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Methods for Achieving Your Purpose in Writing The Brief Bedford Reader centers on common ways of thinking and writing about all kinds of subjects, from everyday experiences to public policies to scientific theories. Whatever your purpose in writing, one or more of these ways of thinking — or methods of development — can help you discover and shape your ideas in individual paragraphs or entire papers.

The following list connects various purposes you may have for writing and the methods for achieving those purposes. The blue boxes along the right edge of the page correspond to tabs on later pages where each method is explained.

PURPOSE METHOD

To tell a story about your subject, possibly to enlighten readers or to explain something to them

Narration

To help readers understand your subject through the evidence of their senses — sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste

Description

To explain your subject with instances that show readers its nature or character

Example

To explain or evaluate your subject by helping readers see the similarities and differences between it and another subject

Comparison and Contrast

To inform readers how to do something or how something works — how a sequence of actions leads to a particular result

Process Analysis

To explain a conclusion about your subject by Division or

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showing readers the subject’s parts or elements Analysis

To help readers see order in your subject by understanding the kinds or groups it can be sorted into

Classification

To tell readers the reasons for or consequences of your subject, explaining why or what if

Cause and Effect

To show readers the meaning of your subject — its boundaries and its distinctions from other subjects

Definition

To have readers consider your opinion about your subject or your proposal for it

Argument and Persuasion

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THE BRIEF BEDFORD READER Fourteenth Edition

X. J. Kennedy Dorothy M. Kennedy

Jane E. Aaron Ellen Kuhl Repetto

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To Dorothy M. Kennedy, 1931–2018

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