Greetings, I am a senior English major at the Univ. of Washington. Although my academic emphasis is on writing, I am also taking composition classes for the a secondary teaching minor. I graduated in 1972 from a small rural high school and can remember a 5th grade teacher and a college-prep English teacher pounding (or attempting to) grammar rules into my head. As both a composition process student and the parent of a 20 yr-old, I find myself struggling between two schools of thought: (1) the old 1960s "you're going to learn "good" grammar and use it or else!" methodology; and (2) today's process-driven composition, which, in my opinion, is not producing any better writers than those of my generation. Any thoughts and/or feedback on this subject would be very helpful to me. Thank you kindly, Cathy Holmes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com