--- Ben Varner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi, John--
> 
> Why have them purchase a text?  Here are interactive
> websites which will accomplish the same purpose:
> 
> http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
> 
> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html
> 
> http://eleaston.com/writing.html
> 
> http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm
> 
> http://soli.inav.net/~jmcclure/compsites.htm
> 
>       Ben Varner
> -- 
> Feature Editor
> Academic Exchange Quarterly
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> 
> 
> > I'm almost wondering if I have been removed from
> the list-serve since I 
> > haven't seen a single message for a month, but I
> guess it makes sense 
> > with end of semester duties and the holidays.
> >  
> > Anyway, I wanted to take advantage of the
> collective knowledge of this 
> > group to try and find a text that I can recommend
> to my freshman writing 
> > students who show interest in studying grammar on
> their own, which seems 
> > to happen at least once a semester. Is there a
> really good text that 
> > presents grammar in a functional way that is
> accessible to 
> > undergraduates and that does not resort to
> ridiculously contrived 
> > examples and drill?
> >  
> > John Whicker
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John,

I tend to agree with Dr. Varner, but I see your point
about the books as well. However, those sites are
excellent and I am glad that you will be recommending
and using them.

Dr. Varner, thanks for those sites; I will also take a
look at them and try and use them.

 By the way, with all the snow falling here in
Colorado recently(falling again today), I am reminded
of that wonderful book of Job, which says that God
tells to snow, "thou fall on the earth."  I am
grateful God controls the climate; we certainly needed
the moisture.
I think that I will enjoy this snow and watch the
Chronicles of Narnia today.

Happy new year to all.

Peyman Javadi




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