ATEG'ers, Since I haven't received any postings from ATEG for months, I hope the list is still alive and well. I did want to thank everyone for the suggestions sent last fall in response to my request for suggestions of readings to use in a seminar that I am now currently teaching. I'll copy the syllabus. At mid-term, the discussions are lively with a group of grad students from English and TESOL. Thanks for your help! Sara English 872: Seminar in the English Language: Grammar and Composition Winter 1998, M W 9:30-11:18 a.m.; 38 Derby Hall Professor Sara Garnes, 411 Denney Hall, 292-8265; English Department: 292-6065; home and messages: 267-8167; e-mail: [log in to unmask] Office Hours: R 10-11:30 a.m. and 1-2:30 p.m., and by appointment BRIEF STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES: In this class, we will investigate relationships between grammar and composition in teaching native and non-native speakers of English, i.e. L1 and L2 students. We will explore the history and politics of various approaches to the subject. Our explorations will include a survey of computerized “grammar checkers” as applied to L1 and L2 discourse. Some of the questions we will attempt to answer are Is there a place for grammar in a composition course? What are the relationships between and among style, grammar, and discourse? How does the grammar of sentences affect the quality of discourse? How are the histories of teaching grammar and composition related? How have issues of linguistic diversity affected attitudes toward variation in academic writing? What is Standard American English, and who gets to decide? How and why have pedagogies of teaching composition to L1 and L2 students differed? REQUIRED TEXTS: CCCC’s Statement, “Students’ Rights to Their Own Language” Haussamen, Brock. Revising the Rules: Traditional Grammar and Modern Linguistics, 2nd ed. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1997. Hunter, Susan and Ray Wallace, eds. The Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction: Past, Present, and Future. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995. Kolln, Martha. Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects, 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996. Noguchi, Rei. Grammar and the Teaching of Writing: Limits and Possibilities. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1991. Odlin, Terence, ed. Perspectives on Pedagogical Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994. Selected articles will be provided. REQUIREMENTS, PAPERS, EXAMS: Grades will be based on regular participation in class, including leading class discussion of two readings (20%); regular participation on the class listserv (20%); brief written report on the grammar checker analysis (15%); a final project including a proposal, distribution of annotated bibliography, in-class presentation, and a final paper (45%). SYLLABUS: Week I Grammar and L1 M Jan 5 Introductions. Run grammar checker on text I will send out e-mail and note results. W Jan 7 Kolln, chs. 1, 2, 3 Week II M Jan 12 Kolln, chs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 What do grammar checkers do . . . and not do? Report and report results of analysis of common text. W Jan 14 Kolln, chs. 9, 10 Select a text for analysis and compare results with those for common text. Week III M Jan 19 No class. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day observed. W Jan 21 Hunter & Wallace, Intro and “Present” essays Summarize grammar checker findings. Week IV Grammar and L2 M Jan 26 Odlin, Preface, chs. 1, 2, 4 Due: Analysis of grammar checker project. W Jan 28 Odlin, chs. 5, 6, 7, 8 Week V M Feb 2 Odlin, chs. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13; article by Celce-Murcia, et al. from TESOL Quarterly, 31 (Spring 1997), 141-152. W Feb 4 Linguistic Diversity CCCC’s Statement on Students’ Rights to Their Own Language Week VI Grammar and Writing Instruction: Past Practices M Feb 9 Hunter & Wallace, “Past” essays Make appointment to discuss options for project W Feb 11 Continue discussing H&W “Past” essays Week VII Out of the Past and into the Future M Feb. 16 Haussamen Due: Proposal for project. W Feb 18 Continue discussing Haussamen Week VIII M Feb 23 and W Feb 25 Noguchi Week IX M Mar 2 and W Mar 4 Hunter & Wallace, “Future” essays Week X M Mar 9 Begin making oral presentations of projects; distribute annotated bibliographies W Mar 11 Finish making presentations as needed. Course evaluation. Final log entries. Exam Week R March 19 Papers due (Papers will be available T Mar 24.) Sara Garnes Associate Professor of English Ohio State University e-mail: [log in to unmask]