Dear ATEG colleagues,

 

I have written privately to Marshall Myers explaining to him that the reason I didn’t respond to his recent phone messages is because there has been some kind of glitch in our campus phone system, and evidently some messages did not come through as they should have. We received an email just yesterday informing us that our system was being worked on and repaired. I traced back through channels and discovered that only one of Marshall’s messages—not three—had even come through our system, but I did not get it. Hopefully that has been fixed now and will not be a problem in the future.

 

It would be a good idea, however, to always try alternate methods of reaching me if one method does not work. My Missouri State University email address is given below, as is my office phone number. It is better to contact me by email since I have more constant access to it than to my office phone. Also, please do not use my old Texas Tech email address, which is still showing on one of our website pages (I have asked our webmaster to check into updating it). Please use my Missouri State email address, which is listed below.

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

ATEG Members:

 

After three phone calls over a month’s time, I cannot get the editor of the Journal of ATEG to respond.

 

So, I’m assuming we will eventually need more book reviews. One is already in the editor’s hands, but we’ll need others later.

 

The book I have up for review now is the second edition of Grammar Demystified by Jonathan Price and Jeanne Rodgers.

 

The book strikes me as one that could be used in an elementary grammar course, even in a high school English, or a freshman composition course. In part, it places emphasis on using grammar as a way to explain certain writing problems. I have two copies, one to give away to the reviewer (you won’t have to wait on the publisher.).

 

I’d like very much to get a reviewer who hasn’t reviewed for us before. High school teachers and comp teachers who use grammar to teach writing would suit me fine.

 

The review should be about two double-spaced pages long. After I name the reviewer, The two of us will work together to get the review ready for the journal.

 

Obviously, book reviews aren’t the same as peer-reviewed articles, but chairs and administrators usually see them as a scholarly effort.

 

Let me hear from you if you are interested.

 

 

Marshall Myers

Book Review Editor

Journal of the Assembly of Teachers of English Grammar

 

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p.s. If any of you members spot a book we should review in the journal, please let me know, and we’ll try to accommodate.

 

 

 

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