Pretty big topic, but I'll toss out a few items.  Hope they help!
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Connors, Robert J.  "Mechanical Correctness as a Focus in Composition
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Dawkins, John.  "Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool."  CCC 46 (Dec.
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Haussamen, Brock.  Revising the Rules: Traditional Grammar and Modern
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Kolln, Martha.  "The Politics of Grammar."  Syntax in the Schools 10.3
(Feb. 1994): 1-4.  (See review in Composition Chronicle 7.4.)
 
Kutz, Eleanor.  "Between Students' Language and Academic Discourse:
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Lester, Mark.  "Why Johnny Can't Correct His Errors."  Inland 16.2
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Meyer, Jim, Jan Youga, and Janis Flint-Ferguson.  "Grammar in Context: Why
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Ridings, Robert.  "Differing Attitudes toward Error."  Washington English
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Williams, Joseph.  "The Phenomenology of Error."  College Composition and
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Larry Beason,Director
English Composition Program
Dept. of English
Eastern Washington University
Cheney WA 99004
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