Writer's Options, Daiker, et al. does a good job with style, rhetoric, and grammar--both sentence and paragraph. Strong may still have a little book called Crafting Cumulative Sentences that works well for those sentences. > ---------- > From: Paul G. Beidler[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar > Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 3:48 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Advanced Writing? > > Hi everyone. I'm an English lit. guy, and I have to teach Advanced > Expository Writing for the first time in the fall. I've had little formal > training in linguistics, but I'm very interested in grammar, and I'd like > for the course to have a serious grammar component. Can any of you > recommend a good text book? I'd like to be able to discuss sentence and > paragraph structure in grammatical terms--but not with a dogmatic book > like > what my friend calls _Strunken White_. Any thoughts? > > Paul Beidler > East Stroudsburg University >