Greetings,

I am a senior English major at the Univ. of Washington. Although my
academic emphasis is on writing, I am also taking composition classes
for the a secondary teaching minor. I graduated in 1972 from a small
rural high school and can remember a 5th grade teacher and a
college-prep English teacher pounding (or attempting to) grammar rules
into my head.

As both a composition process student and the parent of a 20 yr-old, I
find myself struggling between two schools of thought: (1) the old
1960s "you're going to learn "good" grammar and use it or else!"
methodology; and (2) today's process-driven composition, which, in my
opinion, is not producing any better writers than those of my
generation.

Any thoughts and/or feedback on this subject would be very helpful to
me.

Thank you kindly,

Cathy Holmes
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