Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction Past, Present, Future

Name: Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction Past, Present, Future
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ISBN: 9780867093520

ISBN-10: 0867093528

ISBN-13: 9780867093520

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Authors: Susan M. Hunter, Ray Wallace

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In this book, the crucial questions about the place of grammar in the writing classroom are asked and answered. Teachers and researchers explore the role of grammar in the teaching of writing and describe ways that grammar instruction has been, is, and should be used in our writing programs. The contributors share their insights from a variety of perspectives: as college composition teachers, as writing center directors, as rhetoricians, as students, and as writers themselves. They are not grammarians in the conventional sense. Rather, they are voices from various writing settings who show college writing teachers how to reconnect writing and grammar. Divided into three sections, the…

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List price: $47.65
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 1/9/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 265
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Ray Wallace is the director of the Louisiana Scholars' College, the state's designated liberal arts honors college at Northwestern State University. He coedited Intersections: Theory and Practice in the Writing Center for NCTE. With Susan Hunter, he is a founding editor of Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists.



Introduction: Re-examining the Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction



Attitudes Toward Grammar Instruction When Grammar Was a Language Art



Question of Power :Why Frederick Douglass Stole Grammar



Reasserting Grammar's Position in the Trivium in American College Composition



"Grammatical Monstrosities" and "Contemptible Miscreants" :Sacrificial Violence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Usage Handbook



The 1945 NCTE Commission on the English Curriculum and Teaching the Grammar/Writing Connection



Present Concerns About Grammar and Writing


The Rainbow and the Stream: Grammar as System Versus Language in Use



The Use of Grammar Texts: A Call for Pedagogical Inquiry



Grammar for Writers: How Much Is Enough?



Grammar in the Writing Center: Opportunities for Discovery and Change



Stay Rhetorical Contexts of Grammar: Some Views from Writing-Emphasis Course Instructors



Grammar and Voice in the Teaching of Creative Writing :A Conversation, Brown



Teaching Grammar for Writers in a Process Workshop Classroom


Bishop Future Places of Grammar in Writing Instruction


Reconceptualizing Grammar as an Aspect of Rhetorical Invention



Teaching Grammar Affectively: Learning to Like Grammar



Taking Computer-Assisted Grammar Instruction to New Frontiers



Correctness or Clarity? Finding Answers in the Classroom and the Professional World



Afterword: Repositioning Grammar in Writing Classes of the Future