The Bedford Guide for College Writers with Reader, Research Manual, and Handbook
X. J. Kennedy is an acclaimed poet, children’s author, college teacher, and textbook author. He has taught freshman composition at the University of Michigan; the University of North Carolina, Greensboro; and Tufts University. Since 1966, more than 2 million students have treasured his introductory literature texts andThe Bedford Reader, coedited with Dorothy M. Kennedy and Jane E. Aaron, now in its ninth edition. Dorothy M. Kennedy is a writer and editor whose articles and reviews have ppeared in both professional and academic journals. She has taught composition at the University of Michigan and Ohio University and, with X. J. Kennedy, is the recipient of the NCTE Teacher's Choice Award forKnock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry.Marcia F. Muth teaches, writes, and edits.  She has taught first-year writing at The Ohio State University and other introductory courses at St. Peter's College (Englewood Cliffs).  Her many writing workshops have been sponsored by　Fordham University, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and currently　the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver.  She is the author or coauthor of many composition textbooks and ancillaries, includingThe Bedford Guide for College Writers, The Concise Bedford Guide for Writers, Writing and Revising: A Portable Guide, Researching and Writing: A Portable Guide, andThe St. Martin's Pocket Guide to Research and Documentation(all from Bedford/St. Martin's).  Her projects as a writer and an editor have includedHarold D. Lasswell: An Annotated Bibliographyas well as many grant proposals, textbooks, ancillaries, reports, and other publications.  She continues to learn how to write clearly and effectively from her students, editors, reviewers, and writing colleagues.