Griswold, Olga,

Grammar and style choices for college writers / Olga Griswold, Jennie L. Watson. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Understanding sentence parts -- Using effective punctuation -- Verbs : the center of the action -- Nouns : tools for complex reading and writing -- Using grammatical tools for clarity.

"This textbook provides a practical guide to grammar and style choices for college writers, giving students a basic vocabulary for thinking and talking about language use and enabling them to make purposeful choices in their writing. Each section includes a short overview of a grammatical topic accompanied by exercises for raising the students' awareness of and skills in using specific grammatical structures. It focuses on the practical and rhetorical functions of grammatical structures as they are used in expository and analytic writing, rather than on de-contextualized grammatical rules. Students will develop a repertoire of grammatical choices and understand the strategic reasons for making these choices in their writing for various audiences. It particularly attends to the structures that present the most difficulty for college students from multilingual communities and communities where a non-standard dialect of English is used on a daily basis. This textbook can be used as a core textbook for grammar course as well as supplementary text for composition courses. It is also suitable for courses tailored to multilingual, advanced non-native, or non-standard speakers of English"--


Olga Griswold is a professor of linguistics and TESOL at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona. Jennie L. Watson is an instructor of composition at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and Norco College, California.

9781003159889 1003159885 9781000642117 1000642119 1000642038 9781000642032

10.4324/9781003159889 doi

9781003159889 Taylor & Francis

2022010366


English language--Grammar.
English language--Rhetoric.
Report writing.
English language--Grammar.
English language--Rhetoric.
Report writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar


Electronic books.

PE1112

428.2