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Essential Grammar for Today's Writers, Students, and Teachers

By Nancy Sullivan

Routledge – 2015 – 251 pages

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  • Add to CartPaperback: $44.95
    978-0-7656-4174-8
    November 19th 2014
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    978-1-13-885702-5
    December 3rd 2014

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Description

This innovative grammar text is an ideal resource for writers, language students, and current and future classroom teachers who need an accessible "refresher" in a step-by-step guide to essential grammar. Rather than becoming mired in overly detailed linguistic definitions, Nancy Sullivan helps writers and students understand and apply grammatical concepts and develop the skills they need to enhance their own writing. Along with engaging discussions of both contemporary and traditional terminology, Sullivan's text provides clear explanations of the basics of English grammar and a highly practical, hands-on approach to mastering the use of language. Complementing the focus on constructing excellent sentences, every example and exercise set is contextually grounded in language themes. Teachers, students, and writers will appreciate the streamlined, easy-to-understand coverage of essential grammar, as well as the affordable price. This is an ideal textbook for future teachers enrolled in an upper-level grammar course yet is also suitable for any writing course across disciplines where grammatical precision is important. Instructor materials accompanying the text provide teachers with activities designed for face-to-face, hybrid, and online instruction to enliven these basic grammar lessons as well as writing activities to integrate these concepts into students' own writing.

Reviews

"Nancy Sullivan's Essential Grammar for Today's Writers, Students, and Teachers provides a fresh, clear approach to grammar for students in all disciplines, but particularly for future language arts teachers. Beginning with and building on the basics and working through verbal phrases and dependent clauses, Sullivan methodically explores the way English works. This reasonably-priced book includes virtually all the concepts needed for teaching English. Teachers will appreciate its streamlined approach: less reading and more doing is always good in a grammar class." -- Elizabeth Ruleman, Tennessee Wesleyan College

"Nancy Sullivan s Essential Grammar for Today s Writers, Students, and Teachers achieves what few grammar texts accomplish: it presents its subject in a thorough, yet accessible style and format to vanquish the common fears both students and teachers have about learning and teaching this timeless topic. Equally important, the text is grounded in contemporary contexts across cultures, genres, and media, with examples that appeal to a range of audiences and alleviate the traditional assumption that the parts of speech and the way we use them to make meaning are a mystery to be mastered only by experts. In this way, Essential Grammar for Today s Writers, Students, and Teachers will remain a valuable reference for its readers long after a course has ended; in other words, the book is indeed essential." -- Kristine L. Blair, Bowling Green State University

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Commonly Used Abbreviations

Chapter 1 / Word Classes

Chapter 2 / The Basics

Chapter 3 / Sentence Patterns

Chapter 4 / Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives

Chapter 5 / Adjective, Adverb, and Noun Clauses

Answers to the Exercises

Hyperlinks

Glossary

Index

About the Author

eResources

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Name: Essential Grammar for Today's Writers, Students, and Teachers (Paperback) – Routledge 
Description: By Nancy Sullivan. This innovative grammar text is an ideal resource for writers, language students, and current and future classroom teachers who need an accessible "refresher" in a step-by-step guide to essential grammar. Rather than becoming mired in overly...
Categories: Writing & Composition, English & Literacy/Language Arts