Craig,

I too teach writing to underprepared students (in a community college,
though).  For the past two or three months I have been working on putting
together a grammar course for more advanced students which borrows from
transformational grammar and structural linguistics as does the course you
teach.  I have integrated material on use and rhetorical effects by
including Martha Kolln's book Rhetorical Grammar:  Grammatical Choices,
Rhetorical Effects.  The main text for the course is Max Morenberg's Doing
Grammar.

I'm excited about the new course but also a bit apprehensive.  I'd be
interested to know how students react to the aspects of your course that
draw from transformational-generative grammar.

Laura Tobias
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