Thanks for the "heads up" about your book, Carolyn.  I'll order it.

Connie Weaver

Carolyn Hartnett wrote:

> Connie Weaver is right about mainstream publishers' reluctance to handle
> anything but traditional grammar.
> If you want documentation regarding weaknesses of college composition
> handbooks, I could offer you the text of a presentation I made at the CCCC
> meeting in Minneapolis in April, titled New Paradigms for Our Composition
> Handbooks.
> The handbooks are up to date on how to cite Internet sources, but the
> student pages ignore even ideas on grammar suggested in the Instructor's
> Annotated Edition.  They seldom cite linguists, and I could not find Brock
> Haussamen's name anywhere.
>
> I did this research because I had prepared a brief alternative handbook on
> editing based on Systemic Functional Grammar without its terminology. When
> I got fed up with mainstream publishers, I went with Parlay Press, and even
> they wanted me to separate rhetoric from grammar.  If you're interested in
> my Meaning First: A Functional Handbook of Fifty Ways to Polish Your
> Writing.  The address is Parlay Press, P. O. Box 894, Superior WI 54880,
> Phone/Fax (218)834-2508, [log in to unmask]
>
> Carolyn Hartnett
> Professor Emeritus, College of the Mainland
> 2027 Bay Street
> Texas City, Texas 77590-6414
> Phone/Fax (409)948-1446
>
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