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Peer reviewedViera, Carroll – College Composition and Communication, 1986
Presents a simple classroom exercise that transforms a remote future need for grammatical competence into a more practical, immediate, and useful skill. (HTH)
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Writing Exercises
Peer reviewedViera, Carroll – College Composition and Communication, 1988
Presents an exercise for teachers which illustrates the limitations of workbook drills and rule study by teaching a brief hypothetical grammar text of five rules and exceptions, then employing those rules in standard drill exercises and a writing assignment. Claims that traditional pedagogies of formal grammar are not effective in improving…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grammar, Higher Education, Workbooks
Peer reviewedConnors, Robert J. – College Composition and Communication, 2000
Examines the sentence-based pedagogies that arose in composition during the 1960s and 1970s (the generative rhetoric of Francis Christensen, imitation exercises, and sentence-combining) and attempts to discern why these three pedagogies have been so completely elided within contemporary composition studies. Concludes that this erasure of sentence…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
Peer reviewedBrown, Clark – College Composition and Communication, 1975
Common approaches to composition teaching are satirized. (JH)
Descriptors: English Departments, English Instruction, Grammar, Higher Education
