In 1919, the young E.B. White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr. Strunk ...

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Although debate over grammar instruction continues, Dennis Sjolie asserts that a solid foundation in sentence construction is particularly necessary for English language learners. He shows how ...

The teacher of composition to low-level ESL students is entirely justified in questioning whether the materials he has at his disposal teach anything more than grammar manipulation which happens to be ...

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