between his rough draft and final draft in punctuation, grammar, and the overall connotation of…
Grammardog was founded in 2001 by Mary Jane McKinney, a high school English teacher and dedicated grammarian. She and other experienced English teachers in both high school and college regard grammar and style as the key to unlocking the essence of an author. Their philosophy, that grammar and literature are best understood when learned together, led to the formation of Grammardog.com, a means of sharing knowledge about the structure and patterns of language unique to specific authors. These patterns are what make a great book a great book. The arduous task of analyzing works for grammar and style has yielded a unique product, guaranteed to enlighten the reader of literary classics. Grammardog’s strategy is to put the author’s words under the microscope. The result yields an increased appreciation of the art of writing and awareness of the importance and power of language. Grammardog.com L.L.C. P.O. Box 299 Christoval, Texas 76935 Phone: 325-896-2479 Fax: 325-896-2676 fifi@grammardog.com…
English Dept. of Quinnipiac University. “Part Seven: Editing Grammar.” The College Writers Reference. 5th Ed. Upper Saddle River: New Jersey, 2008. 335-350.…
James Paul Gee’s introduction to Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics and his article, What is Literacy?, approach literacy studies from psychological and sociological viewpoints. He states that the focus of literacy is social practices (“it’s not just how you say it, but what you are and do when you say it).…
The essay begins as Preston states that some dialects of the same language are not as correct or pleasant as others. Next, Preston would state that no matter the demographic, most people in the United States are attached to the thought of dialect correctness. To follow the opening, Preston would then state two…
“I was being prepared…by a training which taught me to have a horror of faulty grammar instead of teaching me, when I committed these faults, not to envy others who avoided them.”-p. 39…
My heart was racing, palms sweating, anyone could sense my nervous energy as I walked into Professor Roth’s 1301 English class. Writing has never been my area of expertise and I often struggle with proper grammar. Professor Roth has helped me improve my writing tremendously in the short eight-week span we have been in class. I have gained knowledge of the writing process, improved my sentence-level writing skills, and collaboratively worked with fellow classmates to achieve common goals. Over the eight weeks, I have acquired substantial fundamental aspects of writing in English 1301. Writing is an interactive process and there is always room for improving.…
2. Which of the following phrases does the author use to illustrate the notion of an unnatural and pretentious writing style?…
This paper reviews some of the theories and research which fuel ‘the great grammar debate’ regarding first language acquisition and second language teaching and learning . It will analyse how these theories have influenced governement policies, school curricula and teaching approaches in the past decades and what is the place of grammar within the current teaching of the modern foreign language (MFL), to finally explain how these researches have been informing my own teaching practice.…
Phillips, Leslie. "A Grammarian 's Funeral." The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Fall 2001. Web. 15 Apr. 2011. <http://loki.stockton.edu/~kinsellt/projects/grammarian/storyReader>.…
Grammar in the work place was a very interesting article to read I must say that I have learned a lot about Grammar in the workplace. Susan states good facts about work place grammar. I felt that her main point was how people network within an outside the company such as email’s, writing reports, twitter posts, and Facebook posts. Susan makes great points to go on and say that “if you are working for these companies you are representing them and when you are representing these companies you should use good grammar”. Additionally, Kyle Weins also wrote an article on grammar on the workplace. Kyle felt that he should not hire people that do not speak proper English or write proper English in his company. He too felt like Susan, that the people…
The grammar textbooks make up the majority of textbook sales. There are many variations of grammar textbooks in the market, which makes it harder for a user to decide when purchasing a grammar book. In this paper, I will be analyzing one of the grammar textbooks - Analyzing English Grammar 7th edition. In the first part of my analysis I talk about the concepts illustrated in the book and define the meaning of key terminology. In the second part, I will raise the issues regarding the pros and cons of this textbook, and its usefulness. Using the ideas in “Writing Grammar Textbooks: Theory and Practice” by Patricia Byrd (Georgia State University 1994), I will show the criteria for a good grammar book. Then, I will compare “Analyzing English Grammar” to those criteria to demonstrate evidence to support my views about the usefulness of this textbook. In the end I will provide additional information about the textbook, and conclude my opinions.…
3) What is the benefit of teaching grammar in the context of a free-form creative piece of writing?…
2. Which of the following phrases does the author use to illustrate the notion of an unnatural and pretentious writing style?…
This is the second required general core course in collegelevel writing. Observing the conventions of…