Hi - Since I'm sure you have heard the doubts about whether there is any
point to teaching grammar in a composition class, I won't repeat them.

I suggest Art Peterson's The Writer's Workout Book (from the National
Writing Project) or, if you don't mind having your students dislike the
course, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity & Grace by Joseph M. Williams (4th
ed. HarperCollins).

>Hi everyone.  I'm an English lit. guy, and I have to teach Advanced
>Expository Writing for the first time in the fall.  I've had little formal
>training in linguistics, but I'm very interested in grammar, and I'd like
>for the course to have a serious grammar component.  Can any of you
>recommend a good text book?  I'd like to be able to discuss sentence and
>paragraph structure in grammatical terms--but not with a dogmatic book like
>what my friend calls _Strunken White_.  Any thoughts?
>
>Paul Beidler
>East Stroudsburg University


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