Dear Colleagues,

I teach fourth semester writing courses--Business and Technical Writing. For the sentence work of such classes, I used to require Williams' Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace or Martha Kolln's Rhetorical Grammar. But I found that both of these, though very good, were (1)very expensive and (2) covered too much information for the purposes of these classes.

I am wondering what some of you might be using these days in upper lever writing classes to introduce some of the ideas from those two texts. Specifically, I am interested in paragraph cohesion, metadiscourse, the old to new movement etc. And in general, who are the recommended grammar experts these days? Here at Penn State, it was always Kolln.

All the best,
Marcy Nicholas
Penn State York
Instructor of English
1031 Edgecomb Avenue
York PA 17403

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