ADD'L SOURCES | thegrammardebate

ADDITIONAL SOURCES AND IDEAS:

I am including here a list of sources that I am considering reading during the summer for my project. I am not sure if I will go in any of these particular directions, but I thought that it would be good to include a potential reading list. (Please click on the titles to find the articles or websites).

These are the articles that I think could be useful for me:

"Why Johnny Can't Write" by Merrell Sheils

"Why Newsweek Can't Tell Us Why Johnny Can't Write" by Suzette Haden Elgin

"Mirroring Ourselves? The Pedagogy of Early Grammar Texts" by Gordon Glau

"Grammar...Again" by Edwin Epps

Responses and Replies by Hartwell to detractors including Kolln and Vavra

"Grammar in Freshman English" by Donald J. Lloyd

"Is Grammar Really Dead?" by Roy O'Donnell

"English Grammar in the 1960's" by Ralph Long

"The Effect of Grammar Teaching on Writing Development" by Richard Andrews et al.

"The Relation of Formal Grammar to Composition" by Janice Neuleib

"The Story of English Grammar in US Schools" by Martha Kolln and Craig Hancock

"Using Freshman English to Analyze What Students Really Know about Grammar" by Matthew Teorey

"The Cultural Tradition of Nineteenth-Century 'Traditional' Grammar Teaching" by William F. Woods

"Grammar. For Writing? A Critical Review of Empirical Evidence" by Dominic Wyse

I am linking a list of possible sources (here) that I developed at the beginning of this project as well.

These are the books that I think could be useful for me:

Invention in Rhetoric and Composition by Janice M. Lauer

Toward a Civil Discourse by Sharon Crowley

Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing by C.H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon

Errors and Expectations by Mina Shaughnessey

Questions and Ideas that I still have:

Should I look into the pivotal studies of the 1960's like the Braddock, Lloyd-Jones, and Schoer study, the Harris Study, or Elley Study? Maybe I should at least have access to them so that I could quote from them?

Should I do anything with the NCTE's "Students' Right to Their Own Language"?

Should I look into the public's reaction to these issues in acadmemia? I could also look into how everyone feels as if they have a vested interest because it is something that we all learn?