A teacher of secondary learning disabled students describes an effective way of teaching grammar, mechanics, and usage by focusing on revising and editing of the students' own work. (CL)

A comparative study of three approaches to freshman English: a traditional grammar approach, a free-writing approach, and a quasi-linguistic approach (sector analysis). (DD)

The 21 books reviewed were published in 1968, 1969, or 1970; excluded are remedial texts," those on extremely narrow topics," and those on rhetoric alone." (Author/RD)

Reports on a variety of ways to use the college newspaper in a remedial writing class. (MKM)

Investigates the grammar and style checker in MS WORD software in depth, focusing on its theoretical underpinnings. Contrasts the approaches to grammar and style embodied in the software with those found in current composition pedagogy. Concludes with suggestions that go beyond customizing the Grammar Checker to advocating more thorough…

Argues that publishers of simplified versions of literary texts accessible to the language learner give inadequate guidance to their simplifiers regarding grammatical simplification, leaving them to rely on their intuitive feel. The article outlines and demonstrates a system of grammatical simplification based on fundamental syntactic…

Examines the way mainstream language instructors evaluate second-language learners' writings. The research illustrates the continued importance of the mechanics of grammar as a major criterion in the evaluation of second-language learners' composition. (16 references)

Various studies revealed the ineffectiveness of direct grammar instruction to produce better writers. However, a high school teacher finds that explaining grammar rules provides students with tools for building complex thoughts and expressing themselves more elaborately.

This is an extended summary of a pedagogic essay by Mikhail M. Bakhtin on writing style, titled "Dialogic Origin and Dialogic Pedagogy of Grammar: Stylistics as Part of Russian Language Instruction in Secondary School." In this essay, written in spring 1945 while Bakhtin was a secondary school teacher of Russian language arts, he argues that every…

While the noticing function of output has been increasingly researched by a number of applied linguists, the nature of such noticing and its effect on subsequent learning in the context of EFL writing have not been fully investigated. In a four-stage writing task consisting of output, comparison, and two revisions, this study examined what…

The purpose of this document is to provide teachers with a uniform guide and uniform standards for writing skills, and with general style principles which will provide for an easy flow of student skill development in grades one through six. Included under the major heading of General Skills are: Ten Steps to Better Writing; The Proper Heading;…

This paper suggests that oral reading of written composition can be an effective method of sensitizing students to the presence of grammatical and logical errors. A sample paragraph is used to illustrate the technique; guidelines for use include the suggestions that students be asked to look for one particular type of compositional error (such as…