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 William J. McCleary 3247 Bronson Hill Road Livonia, NY 14487 716-346-6859