At  4:55 PM 9/26/97 -0400, Sara Garnes wrote:
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>ATEG subscribers:
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>I'm working on a proposal for a course for graduate students who have
>little or no formal training in grammar who have had introductory course
>work in composition theory and practice, who have taught composition, and
>who want to investigate relationships between grammar and composition in
>teaching native and non-native speakers of English, i.e. L1 and L2.
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>I would appreciate very much knowing what all of you would recommend as the
>one or two books or articles that must be on the reading list.
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>Please answer on the list or to me [[log in to unmask]].
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>Thanks!
>Sara Garnes
>Associate Professor of English
>Ohio State University
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Sara:  Be sure to check out Brock Haussamen's Revising the Rules:
Traditional Grammar and Modern Linguistics, 2nd ed. (Dubuque, IA:
Kendall-Hunt, 1997).
 
Brock has done a real service in his research on "rules."  Every teacher
should read it.
 
Martha Kolln
 
P.S.  I hope you'll share your list when you get it compiled!