Breaking the Rules : Liberating Writers Through Innovative Grammar Instruction

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Rule Breaking and the Reflective English Teacher xi Language Acquisition and Traditional School Grammer 1(18) Traditional School Grammar: Definitions That Do Not Define 19(28) Usage: Rules That Do Not Rule (and a Few That Do) 47(42) Writing: Liberating the Student Writer 89(62) Punctuation Today 151(42) Appendix: An Updated Treatment of the Parts of Speech 193(22) References 215(8) Index 223