Fellow ATEGers,
   I have gotten the go ahead from our linguistics department to develop 
and teach a course in language and writing. I have been teaching writing 
courses with a strong language component, but this one will be a 
language course with a strong writing component, fulfilling an upper 
level "writing intensive" requirement for students while serving as an 
elective in linguistics. Students will not only write, but explore those 
insights about language that seem most writing friendly, the "knowledge 
about language" that might be useful in writing, reading, editing, 
teaching. What can we learn from corpus grammars?  Is meta-functional 
analysis (from systemic functional grammar) helpful? Is it useful to 
draw from cognitive linguistics in looking at form as a construal of 
meaning?  What are the strengths and weaknesses of traditional grammar?  
From the writing end, what knowledge about language will help us 
negotiate standard English, the routine conventions of writing 
(including punctuation), rhetorically effective choice, and the demands 
of academic texts.
   My first question would be whether anyone is doing anything similar 
and would be willing to share a syllabus and/or practical advice. The 
other question would be how to deal with the problem of text for a 
course that will, by design, be sampling from a number of approaches. 
Any advice would be welcome.

Craig

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