Dear Student Researcher,
Connie Weaver's book Grammar in Context, I think, is the
definitive collection of research on the grammar debate, but here are a few
other sources you might check:
Braddock, R., Lloyd-Jones, L. & Schoer, L.. (1963) . Research in
written composition. Champaign, Illinois : National Council of
Teachers of English.
Christensen, F. (1967) . Notes toward a new rhetoric. New York:
Harper & Row.
Coe, R. M. (1988) . Toward a grammar of passages. Carbondale,
Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press.
Connors, R. J., & Lunsford, A.A., (1988) . Frequency of Formal Errors
in Current College Writing, or Ma and Pa Kettle Do Research.
College Composition and Communication 39:395-409.
Daiker, D.A., Kerek, A., & Morenberg, M. (1990) . The writer's options:
Combining to composing (4th ed). New York: Harper & Row.
D'Angelo, F.J. (1985) . Process and thought in composition. Little,
Brown and Company, Boston.
Elley, W.B., Barhan, I.H., Lamb,H., & Wyllie, M. (1976) . The role of
grammar in a secondary English curriculum. Research in the
teaching of English, 10, 5-21. (Reprinted from New Zealand
Journal of Educational Studies, May 1975, 10, 26-42)
Elbow, P. (1985) . The challenge for sentence combining. In Sentence
combining: A rhetorical perspective, edited by D. A. Daiker, A. Kerek, & M.
Morenberg, 232-45. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern
Illinois University Press.
Evans, June B. (1981) "The Analogous Ounce: The Analgesic for Relief,"
English Journal, 70, No.2, 38-39.
Hairston, M. (1981) . Not all errors are created equal: Nonacademic
readers in the professions respond to lapses in usage. College
English 43:794-806.
Hillocks, G. (1986) . Research on written composition: New directions
for teaching. Urbana: NCTE/ERIC.
Kerek, A., Daiker, D., & Morenberg, M. (1980) . Sentence combining
and college composition. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 51, 1059-
1157.
Koch, R.M. (1982) . Syllogisms and superstitions: The current state of
responding to writing. Language Arts 59:5.
Kolln, M. (1981) . Closing the books on alchemy. College Composition
and Communication, 32:2 (May) pp. 139-151.
Kolln, Martha. 1998. "Miss Fidditch Gets a Makeover." Syntax in the
Schools, 14:3 (February) pp. 1-4
Kolln, M. (1991) . Rhetorical grammar. New York: Macmillan.
Maculey, W.J. (1947) . The difficulty of grammar. British Journal of
Educational Psychology, 17, 153-162.
McQuade, F. (1980). Examining a grammar course: The rationale and
the result, English Journal, 69, 26-30.
Mellon, J.C. (1969) . Transformational sentence-combining (Research
Report N0. 10). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of
English.
Moffett, J.W. (1968) . Teaching the universe of discourse. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin.
Morenberg, Max (1991) . Doing grammar. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Neuleib, Janice, and Irene Brosnahan. 1987. "Teaching Grammar to Writers."
Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 28-35.
Noden, H. and Vacca, R. 1994. Whole Language in the Middle and Secondary
Schools. (See the Chapter on Grammar.)
Noguchi, Rei (1991) . Grammar and the teaching of writing. Urbana,
IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
O'Hare, F. (1973) . Sentence combining: Improving student writing
without formal grammar instruction (Research Report No. 15).
Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
Provost, G. (1990) . Make your words work, Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's
Digest Books
Rosenblatt, L. (1978) . The reader, the text, the poem: The
transactional theory of the literary work. Carbondale, Ill.:
Southern Illinois University.
Sanborn, J. (1986) . Grammar: Good wine before its time. English
Journal 75.3 (Mar.): 72-80.
Tuffte, V. (1971) . Grammar as style. Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, New York.
Warner, A. (1993) . If the shoe no longer fits, wear it anyway? English
Journal 82.5 (Sept.) 76-80.
Weathers, W. (1980) . An alternate atyle, Rochelle Park, New Jersey:
Hayden Book Company, Inc.
Weaver, C. 1998. "Grammar Emerging" Syntax in the Schools,
Weaver, C. (1979) . Grammar for teachers: Perspectives and
definitions. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English.
Weaver, C. (1996) . Teaching grammar in context. Portsmouth, NH.:
Boynton/Cook Publishers, Heinemann.
Weaver, C. (1998) .Lessons to Share. Portsmouth, NH.:
Boynton/Cook Publishers, Heinemann.
Williams, J.M. (1979) . Defining complexity. College English 40, 595-
609.
The two issues of the English Journal (devoted to this debate) are
fun to read to see varying views. Also, back issues of Syntax in the
Schools will give you a variety of views, if you can find these issues.
Sincerely,
Harry Noden
"Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine,
shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving."
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