A Student's Companion for the Bedford Guide

Designed to support students learning to navigate college and first-year composition at the same time, A Student's Companion for The Bedford Guide for College Writers provides:

• -College success materials that help students build confidence, manage time effectively, and write ethically and responsibly

• Activities designed to help students develop, draft, and revise thoughtful, college-level writing projects for each of the writing goals in Part Two of The Bedford Guide for College Writers

• Sentence guides for academic writing that give students a jumping-off point as they learn to present and respond to the ideas of others

• Extra practice with developing topic sentences, avoiding wordiness, and correcting other common problems, such as comma splices and fragments Introduction