Dear John,
Glad to be of help.
My book, Meaning First, shows how I taught required classes titled "Rhetoric 
and Composition."  Grammar (and such things as organization and tone, etc.) 
are all related to effective composition.  I did not aim to teach grammar as a 
separate subject, only as an aid to good writing.  

I don't believe that my CCCC presentation would be of great use to you over 
there because it relates contents of our popular textbooks to the requirements 
of our specified tests -- which were changed in Texas since then.  Better is a 
book I cited a great deal:  Publishing in Rhetoric and Compositioon, edited 
by Gary Olson and Todd Taylor, published by State University of New York Press 
in 1997.  I do recommend that highly.  

I read your request and a response on the Sysfling list.  

All the best,
Carolyn 




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> Dear Carolyn,
>   I was so happy to get your reply and straight away I ordered your 
> `Meaning First: A Functional Handbook of Fifty Ways to Polish Your 
> Writing`. 
>   I would love to know how you went about (and are hopefully still going 
> about)teaching functional grammar in your classes. 
>   Is there any opportunity of getting a copy of the presentation of your 
> research to the national Conference on College Composition and 
> Communication (CCCC, part of the National Council of Teachers of English, 
> NCTE)?
>   Here in Japan the teaching by expatriate teachers is centred on an 
> eclectic approach combining different elements of :traditional 
> grammar,communicative language techniques and more recently task based 
> approaches. (In the last six months I have found an excellent task-based 
> textbook that works well with my students). Unfortunately the functional 
> grammar approach as practiced in New South Wales - zero!
>   Thank you so much for offering to help - are you by any chance an 
> expat.Aussie?
>   I guess the weather in Texas is not so good at the moment but I can 
> assure you in Tokyo it is worse.
>      Regards,
>         John
>   
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