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Grammar Moves: Shaping Who You Are de Lawrence Weinstein

Grammar Moves: Shaping Who You Are

Autor Lawrence Weinstein, Thomas Finn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2010
"Grammar Moves: Shaping Who You Are "helps students understand how the grammatical moves they make reveal their personality traits and present their persona to their readers. The text s rhetorical approach emphasizes the transformative power that grammar choices can have on a writer and helps students develop the personality the wish to portray in their writing. Writers can use the imperative mood to suggest control, colons to be assertive, parenthesis to keep the conversation real, and even commas to present an organized persona. By showing students how seemingly small choices can help them manage the impression they make on readers, "Grammar Moves: Shaping Who You Are "helps students become more deliberate writers. "
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ISBN-13: 9780205742011
ISBN-10: 0205742017
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 140 x 188 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Longman Publishing Group
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Grammar Moves: Shaping Who You Are helps students understand how the grammatical moves they make reveal their personality traits and present their persona to their readers. 
 
The text’s rhetorical approach emphasizes the transformative power that grammar choices can have on a writer and helps students develop the personality the wish to portray in their writing.  Writers can use the imperative mood to suggest control, colons to be assertive, parenthesis to keep the conversation real, and even commas to present an organized persona.  By showing students how seemingly small choices can help them manage the impression they make on readers, Trade-like Grammar Book helps students become more deliberate writers. 
 
Instead of a rules-driven approach comprehensive in scope and exhaustive in examples, Trade-like Grammar Book uses brevity and humor to engage students and offer them a different way to understand grammar. 
 
 

Cuprins

Preface 
 
Introduction
 
Part 1. You, the Doer
 
Ch. 1.    Grammar for Being Assertive: The Colon
A Few Basics
Colons... and who you want to be
        Having Your Turn
Try This
 
Ch. 2.    Grammar for Being Proactive: Active Voice
A Few Basics
Active Voice... and who you want to be
      Living Pro-actively
      Writing and Speaking Pro-actively
      ...Even in the Third Person
Try This
 
Ch. 3.    Grammar for Being Practical: Prepositions
A Few Basics
Prepositions... and who you want to be
      Prepositions We Owe to Other People
      Those We Owe Ourselves
Try This
 
Ch. 4.    Grammar for Being In Charge: The Imperative
A Few Basics
Imperatives...and who you want to be
      Emergencies
      Building Up to It
      Gentle Imperatives
Try This
 
Ch. 5.    Grammar for Being Organized: Commas
A Few Basics
Commas... and who you want to be
      Beyond Doing It By Feeling
Try This
 
Ch. 6.    Grammar for Being Optimistic: “But”
A Few Basics
But... and who you want to be
    End-Focus
    Alternatives to “But”
Try This
 
Part 2. You, the Friend
 
Ch. 7.    Grammar for Being Empathetic: Modifiers
A Few Basics
Modifiers... and who you want to be
    The Failure to Put Oneself in the Reader’s Place
    Examples–Funny and Unfunny
Try This
 
Ch. 8.    Grammar for Being Respectful: Apostrophes
A Few Basics
Apostrophes... and who you want to be
        What They’re Good For, Really
Try This
 
Ch. 9.    Grammar for Being Trusting: Cutting Down on Exclamation Points and Intensifiers
A Few Basics
Exclamation Points, Intensifiers... and who you want to be
      Earning a Listener’s Trust
      Developing Trust in Yourself
Try This
 
Ch. 10.   Grammar for Being “Real”: Contractions, Parentheses, Etc.
A Few Basics
Contradictions, Parentheses, etc.... and who you want to be
      Five Ways to Create Voice
      A Cautionary Note
Try This
 
Ch. 11.   Grammar for Being Diplomatic: Semicolons
A Few Basics
Semicolons... and who you want to be
      What We and the Semicolon Have in Common
      A Punctuation Mark for This Age
      Doing Without Thanks
Try This
 
Ch. 12.   Grammar for Being Generous: Cumulative Sentences
A Few Basics
Periodic and Cumulative Sentences... and who you want to be
      The Generous Writer
      Front-Loading and Back-Loading
Try This
 
Ch. 13.   Grammar for Being Intimate: Ellipses
A Few Basics
Ellipses... and who you want to be
      Everyday Ellipses
      The Secret to the Bonding Power of a Joke
      Love Above All
Try This
 
Ch. 14.   Grammar for Being Forgiving: Past Tense
A Few Basics
Past Tense... and who you want to be
      The Problem with the Present Tense
      The Past Tense Alternative
Try This
 
Ch. 15.   Grammar for Being Expressive: Sentence Length, Etc.
A Few Basics
Sentence Length, Etc.... and who you want to be
      The Musical Effect of Placement
      The Musical Effect of Repetition
      The Musical Effect of Sentence Length
Try This
 
Part 3. You, the Thinker
 
Ch. 16.   Grammar for Being Open-Minded: Cross-Outs
A Few Basics
Cross-Outs... and who you want to be
     Normal Everyday Inquiry
     Close-Minded vs. Open-Minded
     The Sound of Crossing Out
Try This
 
Ch. 17.   Grammar for Being Adaptable: Adverbial Provisos
A Few Basics
Adverbial Provisos... and who you want to be
    “Will” as Straitjacket
    A Way Out
Try This
 
Ch. 18.   Grammar for Being Capable of Dealing with Complexity: The Cues of Complication
A Few Basics
Cues of Complication... and who you want to be
    Tips for Avoiding Simple-Mindedness
Try This
 
Ch. 19.   Grammar for Being Well-Mentored: A Special Use of the Present Tense
A Few Basics
A Special Use of the Present Tense... and who you want to be
      Grammatical Time Warp
Try This
 
Ch. 20.   Grammar for Being Honorable: Quotation Marks
A Few Basics
Quotation Marks... and who you want to be
      What They Call It At School
Try This
 
Ch. 21.   Grammar for Being Modest: “I”
A Few Basics
Saying “I”... and who you want to be
      “Me, Me, Me”
      Striking a Humble Balance
      The I in Storytelling
      A Final Word on I
Try This
 
Ch. 22.   Grammar for Being Rebellious: Breaking the Rules
A Few Basics
Breaking Rules... and who you want to be
      Using Grammar to Climb Kohlberg’s Hierarchy
      Caveat
Try This
 
A Grammarian’s Wish
 
Appendix A: Uses of the Passive Voice 
 
Appendix B: MLA Citation Style
Common Types of MLA Citation on a Works Cited Page
The Format of a Works Cited Page

Caracteristici

 
  • A conversational writing style punctuated with humor invites readers into this rhetorical approach to grammar. 
  • Short chapters on selected grammar topics keep instruction brief so that students can focus on thinking about grammar in a new light rather than memorizing a long list of usage rules.
  • A Few Basics opens each chapter, outlining basic grammar rules of the chapter’s topic element so that students without a strong sense of grammar will have a brief lesson to contextualize the chapter content, while students with a strong sense of grammar will be reminded of less common usages.
  • Try This exercises close each chapter with low-stakes practice opportunities to help students learn chapter concepts in writing situations related to both to their academic and personal lives.
  • Sample sentences resonate with students’ pre-college and college experiences, touching on topics such as work, assignments, the Iraq War, the music industry, internships, and more so that students can better connect the grammar topics in every chapter to their own lives in and outside of college.
  • An appendix on MLA style provides additional support for the instructor eager to try a rhetorical approach to grammar instruction but still requiring MLA coverage offered by traditional college handbooks.