I agree fully, Larry.  Have you been monitoring the discussion about this
issue on the NCTE's list-serv?  It's amazing how much the process-writing
folks are impaired by dogmatic blinders about this issu.
 
 
----parts deleted----
> I think that sentence diagramming has been unfairly criticized by
> English teachers & researchers.  I reluctantly used it in a
> course preparing students to teach English (Grammar for Teachers),
> but I was pleasantly surprised at how well diagraming worked
---parts deleted-----
 
==Cheerio, Reinhold
 ============================================================================
                         Dr. Reinhold Schlieper
Humanities Department                              500 Shadow Lakes Boulevard
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University                            Apartment 139
Daytona Beach FL  32114                                Ormond Beach FL  32174
Phone: 904-226-6664                                       Phone: 904-676-9392
        Visit my home page at: http://erau.db.erau.edu/~schliepr
 ============================================================================