Contents:
Introduction: Re-examining the Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction, Wallace I. Past Attitudes Toward Grammar Instruction 1. When Grammar Was a Language Art, Glenn 2. A Question of Power: Why Frederick Douglass Stole Grammar, Olson 3. Reasserting Grammar's Position in the Trivium in American College Composition, Claywell 4. "Grammatical Monstrosities" and "Contemptible Miscreants": Sacrificial Violence in the Late Nineteenth-Century Usage Handbook, Boyd 5. The 1945 NCTE Commission on the English Curriculum and Teaching the Grammar/Writing Connection, Ross II. Present Concerns About Grammar and Writing 6. The Rainbow and the Stream: Grammar as System Versus Language in Use, Edlund 7. The Use of Grammar Texts: A Call for Pedagogical Inquiry, Mullin 8. Grammar for Writers: How Much Is Enough?, Shuman 9. Grammar in the Writing Center: Opportunities for Discovery and Change, Glover & Stay 10. Rhetorical Contexts of Grammar: Some Views from Writing-Emphasis Course Instructors, Bushman & Ervin 11. Grammar and Voice in the Teaching of Creative Writing: A Conversation, Brown, Boswell, & McIlvoy 12. Teaching Grammar for Writers in a Process Workshop Classroom, Bishop III. Future Places of Grammar in Writing Instruction 13. Reconceptualizing Grammar as an Aspect of Rhetorical Invention, Blakesley 14. Teaching Grammar Affectively: Learning to Like Grammar, Brosnahan & Neuleib 15. Taking Computer-Assisted Grammar Instruction to New Frontiers, Hobson 16. Correctness or Clarity? Finding Answers in the Classroom and the Professional World, Daniel & Murphy Afterword: Repositioning Grammar in Writing Classes of the Future, Hunter