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Peer reviewedCollege English, 1986
Contains comment on and Hartwell's response to Patrick Hartwell's "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar" (CE, February l985) and comment on Mikhail Bakhtin's "Rhetorical Theorist" (CE, October l985). (EL)
Descriptors: College English, English (Second Language), Grammar, Irony
Peer reviewedAlgeo, John – College English, 1972
The three books under review show what flux the English language has undergone and continues to undergo, and how stable grammatical theory has been until recent times. (Author)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, History, Language Styles, Language Usage
Peer reviewedCollege English, 1985
Contains comments on articles by Patrick Hartwell, Robert Scholes, and Gordon Broswell. (EL)
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Grammar, Poetry
Peer reviewedFunkhouser, James L. – College English, 1973
Composition teachers should recognize that all errors in student writing are not the same. The author distinguishes between handbook rules, spoken language, and ambiguity. (MM)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, College Instruction, English Instruction, Language Skills
Download full textChomsky, Noam – College English, 1966
Two traditions are distinguishable in modern linguistic theory: the tradition of "universal grammar" which flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the tradition of structural or descriptive linguistics which reached its peak 15 or 20 years ago. Universal grammar was concerned with (1) the relation of deep structure to surface forms and to…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English Instruction, Grammar
Peer reviewedRose, Shirley K. – College English, 1983
Examines the use of sentence combining as a bridge between grammar and rhetoric during the past 100 years. (MM)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Theories, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
