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.