The Assembly for
the Teaching of English Grammar

Archive Contents of Syntax in the Schools,
renamed in 2005 as ATEG Journal

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Volumes 1 to 6 of Syntax in the Schools were hosted and
supported by Shenandoah College (now Shenandoah University) in
Winchester, Virginia.

Volume 1, No. 1 (September, 1984) [4 pages]

"Greetings" and "Call for Manuscripts"


Volume 1, No. 2 (October, 1984) [4 pages]

Letters from: 
Martha Kolln, Penn State University 
Ann E. Berthoff, University of Massachusetts

"Why Haven't You Seen This Before?"


Volume 1, No. 3 (February, 1985) [4 pages]

"Writing to Learn Grammar," by Anne Legge, Lord Fairfax Community
College, Middletown, VA

"Renovating Traditional Grammar"

"The Purpose of Syntax"


Volume 1, No. 4 (April, 1985) [4 pages]

"Finding Out About Magazine Syntax with Students: Plain English vs. A
Literary Style in Science Writing," by Eric P. Hibbison, J. Sargeant
Reynolds Community College, Richmond, VA

"Syntax and Emphasis," by Ronald K. Giles, Tennessee State University,
Johnson City, TN


Volume 2, No. 1 (September, 1985) [4 pages]

"Syntax-Based Editing for Improved Precision and Coherence," by
Charles E. Beck, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

"Syntax: the Future or the Past?"


Volume 2, No. 2 (November, 1985) [4 pages]

"Sentence Parts in Context," by Leaf Fern, San Diego State University

"How to Teach Comparison-Contrast Transitions in Writing," by Edward
Heckler, Pan American University, Edinburg, TX


Volume 2, No. 3 (February, 1986) [6 pages]

"The Infacy of Writing Instruction: A Mathematical Approach," by Anne
Obenchain, Reston, VA


Volume 2, No. 4 (April, 1986) [4 pages]

"One of Those Brainstorms," by Virginia Shoff, Lower Moreland High
School, Huntingdon Valley, PA

"More about Anne Obenchain"

"NCTE Opposes Instruction in Grammar"


Volume 3, No. 1 (September, 1986) [4 pages]

"Parallelism and the Inexperienced Writer," by Stephen Hahn, William
Paterson College, Wayne, NJ

Letter from: Bill Meuse, Wakefield Academy, Wakefield, VA

"The Bernstein Lectures"

Volume 3, No. 2 (November, 1986) [4 pages]

"A Breakthrough in the Teaching of Writing," by Anne Obenchain


Volume 3, No. 3 (February, 1987) [4 pages]

"Punctuation and Context: A Critique of Handbook Treatments of the
Restrictive/Nonrestrictive Distinction," by Randall L. Popken,
Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX


Volume 3, No. 4 (April, 1987) [4 pages]

"Beginning with Adults," by Eugene Kraft, Georgetown College of
Science and Art

"Holding Students Back?"


Volume 4, No. 1 (September, 1987) [4 pages]

"A Note on Syntax in Poetry," by Mary Ellen Hubbard, University of
London


Volume 4, No. 2 (November, 1987) [4 pages]

"The Effect of Writing Assignments on Student Production of Sentence
Boundary Errors," by Paige Dayton, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX


Volume 4, Nos. 3 & 4 (April, 1988) [8 pages]

"A Note from Sandra Stotsky" [Harvard Graduate School of Education]

"Logo and Lexical Categories," by Pamela Freyd, Univ. of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA

"I Love the Adjective," by Sophia Okun Tracy, New Rochelle, NY


Volume 5, No. 1 (September, 1988) [6 pages]

"Comma Splices: Diagnosis & Remediation," by Felicia Mitchell, Emory
and Henry College, Emory, VA

"Humor Me, Help Me Fill in the Blanks," by Ed Vavra [Not on
fill-in-the-blank exercises :) ]


Volume 5, No. 2 (November, 1988) [4 pages]

"How Are We Supposed to Learn That?" by Jeanne M. Jacobson, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

"Diagramming Yeats' 'Father and Child'," by James S. Mullican, Indiana
State University, Terre Haute, IN


Volume 5, No. 3 (February, 1989) [6 pages]

"Teaching Teachers Grammar," by Thomas Stroik, Morehead State
University, Morehead, KY

"A Surreptitious Manner of Using Syntax as Part of a Recipe in
Writing," by Helen B. Tulis, Norcross, GA

"The Class I Love to Teach"

Book Review:
Creative Approaches to Sentence Combining, by William Strong.
(NCTE, 1986). Reviewed by Allison Wilson, Jackson State University,
Jackson, MS


Volume 5, No. 4 (April, 1989) [6 pages]

"A Collaborative Report on Teaching Syntax," by James Klein & Stephen
Hahn, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ

"Thank you, English Journal"


Volume 6, No. 1 (September, 1989) [4 pages]

"Teaching Grammar in the Context of the Language Arts," by Mitch Cox,
Orange High School, Hillsborough, NC

"Good grammar lies gasping; call the nurse!" by Jeanne M. Jacobson,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

"What Does a High School Diploma Mean?"


Volume 6, No. 2 (November, 1989) [4 pages]

"To Teach or Not to Teach Standard English Grammar: If Not, How Not?"
by Allison Wilson, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

"Wanted: Master Grammarian," by Betty Spruill MacLean, James B. Hunt,
Jr. High School, Wilson, NC

"What Do I Want? A Rational Discussion of Grammar"


Volume 6, No. 3 (February, 1990) [4 pages]

"Evaluating Grammatical Voice," by Karen Scriven, East Carolina
University, Greenville, NC


Volume 6, No. 4 (April, 1990) [6 pages]

"Our Position," by Diana Peck & Tina Lesher, William Paterson College,
Wayne, NJ

"Who Ya Gonna Call?: Grammar Hotlines," by Donna Reiss, Tidewater
Community College, Tidewater, VA

"What Should We Do about Grammar?"


Volume 7, No. 1 (September, 1990) [6 pages]

"Frustrations in the Teaching and Learning of Grammar," by Frederick
F. Kempner, William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, PA

"Conference Creates Association of Teachers on English Grammar,"

"A Sentence Has to Have . . .,"

"The Conference -- A Review,"


Volume 7, No. 2 (November, 1990) [4 pages]

"Grammar Reconsidered -- One More Time: A CCCC Panel," by Janice
Neuleib, Irene Brosnahan, and Maurice Scharton, Illinois State
University, Normal, IL

"Confessions of a Non-Grammarian," by David Alan London, Pennsylvania
College of Technology, Williamsport, PA

Notes from: 
Jeanie Murphy, Pierce College, Puyallup, WA 
Richard Sweeney, Pennsylvania College of Technology 
Kathy Lyday-Lee, Elon, NC.


Volume 7, No. 3 (February, 1991) [6 pages]

"A Response to Frederick F. Kempner's 'Frustrations in the Teaching
and Learning of Grammar'," by Muriel Harris, editor, Writing Lab
Newsletter

"Grammar & the Teaching of Writing at San Francisco State," by Bill
Robinson, San Francisco State

"Grammar and Grades in Composition," by Ed Vavra


Volume 7, No. 4 (April, 1991) [4 pages]

"Everybody Get Out Your Crib Sheets," by James S. Mullican, Indiana
State University, Terre Haute, IN

"Grammar in the Composition Class," by Ben Varner, University of
Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO


Volume 8, No. 1 (September, 1991) [8 pages]

"Nominalization," R.C. Hoover, Washington State University, Pullman,
WA

"Who Should Be Interested in ATEG?" by Ed Vavra

Letters from: 
Robert King, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of North Dakota 
Sandra Smith, Penn State, Hazleton


Volume 8, No. 2 (November, 1991) [8 pages]

"A Multi-Grade, Multi-Draft Approach to Evaluating Written Language,"
by Allison Wilson, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

"American Grammar Teaching and the International Marketplace," by
Frank Peters, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

"What Is a Finite Verb?" by Ed Vavra, Pennsylvania College of
Technology

"Dependent & Independent Clauses: Stupid Grammatical Terms?" by Ed
Vavra


Volume 8, No. 3 (February, 1992) [12 pages]

"Teaching Useful Grammar," by Arthur Whimbey, Myra J. Linden, and
Eugene Williams, Sr., Albuquerque, NM

"'The Teaching of Grammar': A Review of Conference 91," by Janet
Gilbert, Delta College, University Center, MI

Letters from Bill Robinson and Martha Kolln

"Q & A" [a letter from Kerry Clark, New Hampshire, which began the
discussion of the parts of speech in the sentence "Take me hiking
please!"]


Volume 8, No. 4 (April, 1992) [12 pages]

"Place Name Grammar: An 'Off-Day' Classroom Lesson," by Frank Peters,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

"The Active and Passive Voices in Topic/Comment Progressions," by Bill
Robinson, San Francisco State University

"How I Encourage Students to Learn Grammar," by Rudolph Brathwaite,
University of D.C., Washington, D.C.

"Syntax and Reading," by Patrick Groff, San Diego State University

"Two Resolutions of the 1992 Conference," by Ed Vavra

Letter from Sally Joranko (on the "hiking" debate)


Volume 9, No. 1 (September, 1992) [12 pages]

"A Message from the President," by Martha Kolln

"Five Cases Against Serial Commas," by W. M. Lawbaugh, Mount Saint
Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland

"Finding the Subject," by Mary-Jo Arn & Frank Peters, Bloomsburg
University, Bloomsburg, PA

"The Function of 'Hiking', Question" by Dorothy Sedly, West Virginia
University, Morgantown, PA

"The Function of 'Hiking', Response," by Ed Vavra

"Constitution of The Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar of
the National Council of Teachers of English"


Volume 9, Nos. 2 & 3 (February, 1993) [20 pages]

"What the High School Graduate Should Know about English Grammar," by
Frank Peters, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

"Assembly for the Teaching of Grammar Holds First Meeting at NCTE
National Conference Louisville, Kentucky, November 21, 1992," by Mary
Hall, University of Pittsburg at Titusville (and Secretary of ATEG)

"College English Handbooks and Guidelines on Nonsexist Pronominal
Usage," by Felicia Mitchell, Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA

"Considering Numbers While Teaching Grammar," by Frank Peters,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

"What is a Sentence?" by Nancy L. Marcy, Three Rivers
Community/Technical College, Norwich, CT

"A Sound Basic for Language Learning," by Jeanne M. Jacobson, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

"Is There Any Knowledge?" by Ed Vavra, Pennsylvania College of
Technology, Williamsport, PA

"'Hiking' and Critical Thinking," by Dan Loose, Penncrest High School,
Media, PA

"Grammar Books in a Middle School Library," Jean M. Crane, Bloomsburg
Middle School, Bloomsburg, PA


Volume 9, No. 4 (April, 1993) [12 pages]

"A Response to Frank Peters," by Sandra Wyngaard

"From the President: A Correction and a Proposal," by Martha Kolln

"Fighting the Worksheet Syndrome," by Anna Bolling, California State
University, Turlock, CA

"Reading Aloud for Grammatical Realization," by Teena Peters,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

"The Placement of Adverbs," by Mary-Jo Arn, Bloomsburg University,
Bloomsburg, PA

"Some Practical Lessons in Grammar for Use in School," by Frank
Peters, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA


Volume 10, Nos 1 & 2 (November, 1993) [8 pages]

"Verbals: Tense or Tenseless?" by Bill Rakauskas, University of
Scranton, Scranton, PA

"Putting Grammar in its Place," by Claire Coleman Lamonica, Illinois
State University, Normal, IL

"TRC's & Grammar," by Arthur Whimbey, Albuquerque, NM


Volume 10, No. 3 (February, 1994) [8 pages]

"A Sentence Level Grammar Test for Determining Argument Soundness," by
Terry L. Irons, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY

"The Politics of Grammar," by Martha Kolln, Penn State University [and
President of ATEG]


Volume 10, No. 4 (April, 1994) [8 pages]

"A Friendly Response to Martha Kolln," by Sally Joranko, John Carroll
University, Cleveland, OH

"In Answer to Bill Raukauskas' 'Verbals: Tense or Tenseless?'" by
Reinhold Schliepper, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona
Beach, FL

"Money Talks: Finding a Grammar Lesson in Stamps and Small Change," by
Frank Peters, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA

Book Review: 
English Brushup by R. Kent Smith and Janet M.
Goldstein (Townsend Press, 1993). Reviewed by Audrey Caldwell, Alvernia
College, Reading, PA [and ATEG Book Review Editor]


Volume 11, No. 1 (September, 1994) [12 pages]

"Grammar is Not Alone: The 'Conspiracy' Against Explicit Teaching
about Language Structures," by William J. McCleary, SUNY Cortland

"Response to 'Verbals: Tensed or Tenseless'," by George Oliver,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD

"A Research Repository," by Ed Vavra (editorial)

"Animation of Verbals," by Carol Breslin, Gwynedd-Mercy College,
Gwynedd Valley, PA

Book Review: 
Grammar Grams II, by Stephen K. Tollefson (1992).
Reviewed by Anna L. Bolling, California State University, Turlock, CA


Volume 11, No. 2 (November, 1994) [12 pages]

"The Verb-as-Action-Word Hoax," by Anthony D. Hunter, SUNY Delhi

"How Students Perceive Grammar: A Report on a College-Level Grammar
Class," by Max Morenberg, Miami University, Oxford, OH

"Embedded and Aligned Phrase Structures," by Robert Einarsson, Grant
MacEwan Community College, Edmonton, Canada


Volume 11, No. 3 (February, 1995) [12 pages]

"Be It Resolved," by Martha Kolln, ATEG President

"The Jordanko/Morenberg Debate," by James M. Dubinsky, Miami
University, Oxford, OH

Letter from Max Morenberg

"From Fear of Parsing to Teaching to Parse: A Study of Transformations
in a Course on Grammar," by Jim Dubinsky, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Book Review: 
Sentence Sense, by Anthony Hunter. Reviewed by
Carole A. Moses. Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA


Volume 11, No. 4 (April, 1995) [12 pages]

"An ATEG SIG at NCTE in San Diego," by Marilyn Silva

"Will Pedagogical Grammar Improve? or It's Time to Put Up, or Shut Up,
" by Ed Vavra (Editorial)

"In Support of Anthony Devereux Hunter's Sentence Sense," by Barbara
J. Stubbs, Clearview Regional Junior High School, Monroeville, N.J.

"Picturing the Written Word: A Visual Approach to Basic Grammar
Instruction," by Karen S. Roggenkamp, University Liggett School,
Grosse Pointe Woods, MI

Book Review: 
Sentence Matters, by R. Kent Smith (Prentice Hall,
1994). Reviewed by Cindy Meyer Sabik, John Carroll University,
Cleveland, OH


Volume 12, No. 1 (September, 1995) [12 pages]

"Rhetorical and Grammatical Dependency in Adverb Clauses," by Bill
Robinson, San Francisco State University

"The 1995 Conference," by Tom Yonkin, Athens Area High School, Athens,
PA

"Preparing for The Assembly of Teadchers of English Grammar Annotated
Bibliography," by Delma McLeod-Porter, McNeese State University, Lake
Charles, LA

Book Review: 
Teaching Grammar as a Liberating Art, by Ed Vavra.
Reviewed by Audrey Caldwell, Alvernia College, Reading, PA [and ATEG
Book Review Editor]


Volume 12, No. 2 (November, 1995) [8 pages]

"The Grammar Around Us: Movie Titles," by Frank Peters, Bloomsburg, PA

"Sorry, Bill, Subordinate Clauses Subordinate: A Response to Bill
Robinson," by Ed Vavra, Pennsylvania College of Technology [and editor
of the newsletter]


Volume 12, No. 3 (February, 1996) [12 pages]

"A Brief Classroom Grammar," by Brock Haussamen, Raritan Valley
Community College, Somerville, NJ.

"Confessions of an English Semicolon Teacher," by Bill Pendleton, East
Georgia College, Swainsboro, GA

Book Review: 
Revising the Rules: Traditional Grammar and Modern
Linguistics, by Brock Haussamen (Kendall/Hunt, 1993). Reviewed by
Audrey Caldwell, Alvernia College, Reading, PA [and ATEG Book Review
Editor]


Volume 12, No. 4 (April, 1996) [12 pages]

"4C's -- 1996 -- A Grammar Banner Year," by Martha Kolln, Penn State
[and President of ATEG]

"Subordinate Clauses: A Response to Ed Vavra," by Bill Robinson, San
Francisco State University

"Sorry, Ed: Subordinate Clauses Don't Always Subordinate," by Martha
Kolln

"Winter Days Are Cold: A Response to Bill and Martha," by Ed Vavra

"Grammatical Awareness and Billport," by Bill Rakauskas (Univ. of
Scranton) and Frank Peters, Bloomsburg University

Book Review: 
Grammar in Many Voices, by Marilyn N. Silva (NTC
Publishing Group, 1995). Reviewd by Allison Wilson, Jackson State
University.


Volume 13, No. 1 (September, 1996) [12 pages]

"Taboo or not Taboo: That is the Passive," by William Rakauskas and
Jennifer Nish, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA

Book Review: 
Liberating Grammar, by Clifford J. Vaida
(Prentice-Hall, nd). Reviewed by Audrey Caldwell, Alvernia College,
Reading, PA [and ATEG Book Review Editor]


Volume 13, No. 2 (November, 1996) [8 pages]

"Grammar and Style: Knotted," by Loretta S. Gray, Central Washington
University, Ellensburg, WA

"Thank You, Martha; Thank You, Leila; Thank You, Ben," Ed Vavra,
speaking for ATEG

"Grammar, Fear, and Loathing," by Dan Kies [Reprinted from the
NCTE-TALK Listserver]


Volume 13, No. 3 (February, 1997) [12 pages]

"The Birds and the Bees . . . and Grammar," by Bill Connolly, Sewell,
N.J.

"The Morality of Grammar," by Gerald Musinsky, Pennsylvania College of
Technology, Williamsport, PA

"Software Review," by Audrey Caldwell, Alvernia College, Reading, PA
[and ATEG Book Review Editor]

Book Review: 
The Structure of English: Phonetics, Phonology,
Morphology, by Thomas E. Murray (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995).
Reviewed by Audrey Caldwell, Alvernia College, Reading, PA [and ATEG
Book Review Editor]


Volume 13, No. 4 (April, 1997) [8 pages]

"The Quest for the Perfect Grammar Text," by Louise Ulmer,
Williamsport, PA

"Redefining Ourselves?" by Ed Vavra, Pennsylvania College of
Technology [and editor of the newsletter]

"Who Says Filling-in-the-Blanks Exercises are Always Bad?" by Ed Vavra

Book Review: 
Analyzing English Grammar, 2nd ed. by Thomas P.
Klammer and Muriel R. Schulz (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1996). Reviewd by
Audrey Caldwell, Alvernia College, Reading, PA [and ATEG Book Review
Editor]


Volume 14, No. 1 (September, 1997) [8 pages]

"The Public Case for Grammar Instruction," by Brock Haussamen, Raritan
Valley Community College, Somerville, N.J.

"The School Teachers and the College Teachers . . . and Armpits," by
Sally Joranko, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio

"The Final Word on Finally and Lastly," by Charles Kovach, San Diego
City College and Southwestern College

Letters from: 
Thomas Yonkin, Athens Area High School, Athens, PA 
Dolly Withrow, Kenna, WV


Volume 14, No. 2 (November, 1997) [12 pages]

"Grammar Necessary for Beginning College English: One Professor's
View," by Jack Balcer, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA.

"Grammar Emerging in Writing," by Constance Weaver, Western Michigan
University.

"Ungrammatically Correct?: Poetry's Deviance," by Don Rhoads,
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA

"Yonkin's Laws of Prepositional Phrases," by Tom Yonkin, Athens Area
High School, Athens, PA

"Possessives Simplified," by George Oliver, University of Maryland,
College Park

"Relative Pronouns and the Correction of Comma Splices: A Teaching
Technique," by Charles Kovach, San Diego College and Southwestern
College

Letter from: 
Andrew R. Fabian, Lancaster, PA


Volume 14, No. 3 (February, 1998) [12 pages]

"Miss Fidditch Gets a Makeover," by Martha Kolln, Penn State (and
President of ATEG)

"Criteria for Making Book Reviews," by Audrey Caldwell, Alvernia
College, Reading, PA (and ATEG's Book Review Editor)

"Garden Path Sentences as Avenues to Teacher-Writer Cooperation," by
Frank Peters, Bloomsburg Univ., Bloomsburg, PA.

"Second Language Implications of Constance Weaver's Teaching Grammar
in Context," by Thomas L. Hansen, Principal Education Consultant,
Illinois State Board of Education.

Book Review: 
The Confident Writer, by Dolly Withrow
(Irwin/Mirror Press, 1997). Reviewed by Dr. Curt Leviant, Rutgers
University.


Volume 14, No. 4 (April, 1998) [12 pages]

"A New Day for Ms. Fidditch?" by Bill McCleary, SUNY Cortland.
"Grammar and the Social Studies Essay: Start with the Verbs," by Amy
Benjamin, Hendrick Hudson High School, Montrose, NY.

"On Grammar and Brainstorming," by Laurence Sterne. (Quoted from
Tristram Shandy, Vol. V, Chapters XLII & XLIII.)

Book Review: 
Mastering Written English: The COMP-LAB Exercises,
5th ed. by Mary Epes and Michael G. Southwell (Prentice-Hall, 1997).
Reviewed by Audrey Caldwell, Alvernia College.


Volume 15, No. 1 (September, 1998) [8 pages]

"The President's Report" ATEG '98 -- Sleepless in Seattle," by Martha
Kolln

"Utilizing Literature in the Teaching of Grammar," by Debbie Aultman
and Angela Weihman, Waubonsie Valley High School, Naperville, IL

"Resolution Passed on Scope and Sequence and Standards"

"A Response to Bill McCleary," by Dolly Withrow, Kenna, WV

Book Review: 
Mastering Written Sentences, by Mary Epes and
Michael G. Southwell (Prentice-Hall, 1998). Reviewed by Marshall
Myers, Eastern Kentucky University.


Volume 15, No. 2 (November, 1998) [8 pages]

"The Trouble with They," by Judith Daday, The Writing Center, Ferris
State University

"Stylistic Grammar," by Julie Swedin, Selah, WA


Volume 15, No. 3 (February, 1999) [8 pages]

"Minimalist Grammar: Still a Bane to Liberal Education," by Jeff
Glauner, Associate Dean, Division of Humanities and Performing Arts,
Park College, Parkville, MO 64152.

"A New Approach to Teaching Sentence Structure," by Mary Epes and
Michael Southwell

"Thinking in Verbs: Part II Adjective to Verb," by Amy Benjamin,
Hendrick Hudson Hich School, Montrose, N.Y. 12524

"Using Relative Clauses for Clarification," by Charles Kovach, Adjunct
English Instructor, San Diego City College & Southwestern College

Book Review: 
Rhetorical Grammar, 3rd ed. by Martha Kolln.
Reviewed by Dr. Marshall Myers, Eastern Kentucky University


Volume 15, No. 4 (April, 1999) [12 pages]

"Making and Disseminating Standards on Teaching Grammar," by Nancy
Burkhalter

"Participial Phrases: Adjective or Adverb?" by William Rakauskas,
University of Scranton, Scranton, PA

"Grammar and Syntax Review Can Help Focus," by Mary Hall, University
of Pittsburgh at Titusville, Titusville, PA, 16354


Volume 16, No. 1 (Sept., 1999) [8 pages]

"A Message from Martha Kolln"

"A Response to Judith Daday's 'The Trouble with They' and Julie
Swedlin's 'Stylistic Grammar'," by Andy Fabian

"Practice Makes Perfect," by Eugene R. Miller, Southern Connecticut
State University, New Haven, C.T. 06515


Volume 16, No. 2 (Nov., 1999) [12 pages]

"Report from Denver: NCTE's 89th Annual Convention," by Martha Kolln

"Some Varieties of Parallelism in English Prose" by Robert Einarsson

"An Evaluation of Microsoft Word 97's Grammar Checker," by Caroline
Haist, Canadore College, North Bay, Ontario

"Sentence Completeness: What's Playing at the Multiplex?" by Amy
Benjamin, Hendrick Hudson High School, Montrose, N.Y. 12524


Volume 16, No. 3, Winter 2000

Alison Sealey, "Grammar in the Schools: Notes from the British Front"

Leslie Barratt, "Beginning With Babies"

Anca M. Nemoianu, "Those Divine Details: Hyponyms in Descriptive
Texts"

Book Reviews: 
Discovering English Grammar, by Richard Veit,
reviewed by Marshall Meyer

Spoken Language Interference Patterns in Written English, by
Helene Seltzer Krauthamer, reviewed by Audrey Cauldwell

Notices: Summer Conference: Assembly for the Teaching of English
Grammar


Volume 16, No. 4, Spring 2000

"Making State Academic Standards Explicit for Syntax," Laura A.
Blackburn, Tina R. Wix, Cecile McKee, Sam Supalla

"A Basic Seventh Grade Grammar Course," Laurence Kriegshauser, O.S.B.

"Notes in the Margin: Teaching Pronouns: A Case for Leggos," Amy Benjamin

Reviews: "The Spell-Lang Tree," reviewed by Sue Jones


Volume 17, No. 1, Autumn 2000 [16 pages]

"Grammar Teaching and Writing Skills: The Research Evidence," Ruchard Hudson

"A Justification for Teaching Grammar," James Kenkel, Robert Yates

"Notes in the Margin: On Whole Language," Amy Benjamin

Reviews: "Image Grammar," reviewed by Marshall Myers


Volume 17, No. 2, Winter 2001 [12 pages]

"The Changing Status of Grammar," Marha Kolln

"Skills in the UK," Anthea Fraser Gupta, et al.


Volume 17, No. 3 was not published.


Volume 17, No. 4, Summer 2001 [8 pages]

"Public Grammar and Private Grammar: The Social Orientation of Grammar," Brock Haussamen


Volume 18, No. 1, Autumn 2001 [8 pages]

"Methods for Teaching Grammar: The Fertile Ground of Authentic Language," Amy Benjamin


Volume 18, No. 2, Winter 2002 [12 pages]

"A Practical Grammar Course: A (Partially) Annotated Syllabus," Kristen Denham, Anne Lobeck


Volume 18, No. 3, Spring 2002[12 pages]

"A Review of the National Literacy Strategy -- Grammar for Writing," Malcolm R. Kauffman

"The National Literacy Strategy: A Review" Amy Benjamin


Volume 19, No. 1, Autumn 2002 [12 pages]

"A Review of the National Literacy Strategy: Grammar for Writing," Johanna Rubba

Reviews: "Analyzing the Grammar of English, 2nd ed.," reviewed by Marshall Myers


Volume 19, No. 2, Winter 2003 [12 pages]

"Survey on Teaching Grammar: It's Not Just for Writing Anymore," Brock Haussamen

Reviews: "The Prototype-Construction Approach," reviewed by Michelle Moosally


Volume 19, No. 3, Spring 2003 [16 pages]

"On the Role of Prescriptive Grammar," Nicholas Sobin

"Good English," Edwin Battistella

Reviews: "The Teacher's Grammar Book," reviewed by James D. Williams


Volume 20, No. 1, Fall 2003 [16 pages]

"From the Editors," Kristen Denham, Anne Lobeck

"Grammar Tensions: Conflicting Purposes and Approaches," Deborah Dean

"An Infinitive Split," Judith DaDay

Reviews: "English Grammar: Language as Human Behavior: 2nd ed.," reviewed by Sarah Tsiang


Volume 20, No. 2, Winter 2004 [12 pages]

"From the Editors," Kristen Denham, Anne Lobeck

"Grammar Teaches Literature," Amy Benjamin

"Shakespeare Through Grammar," Paul E. Doniger