"Critical Reading and Writing will help you with key skills for your writing class. It provides advice on how to read thoughtfully and analytically, with instruction on active reading and note-taking, plus help with analyzing visual and multimodal texts. It will also take you through the writing process, explaining important concepts such as purpose, audience, invention, critical thinking, prewriting, thesis development, and organization, giving support when you need it most. Guidance on using sources, revising, and editing will help you enrich, re-see, edit, and format your papers"--Back cover.

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.