>In the main, though, teachers who teach writing have much larger issues
>than style, whether >good and bad style or correct and incorrect style.
>Their primary emphasis has to be on organization >and content.

Have you ever thought that grammar can be used to teach organization and
content?  For example, if "who, what, why, where, when, and how" comprise
the main content of most if not all papers, then teaching grammar is a means
by which students can learn how to communicate this content.  Both "when"
and "where" information are communicated by using adverbs, prepositional
phrases, and dependent clauses.  By teaching grammar, then, you are also
teaching the construction of meaning/content - and isn't this the goal of a
writing teacher?

Geoff Layton

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