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Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation: Rhetorical Tools for Literate Uses of Languagegives pre- and in-service teachers of English and English as a Foreign Language a concise look at language as a rhetorical tool, while focusing on teaching and learning about grammar, usage, and punctuation through play and experimentation. The book focuses on having readers work with language in ways that develop their meta-linguistic awareness-showing how we worklanguage and how we make it work forus. Easy to understand and navigate, the book presents the ideas of each chapter with objectives, a discussion of the main concept(s), key assumptions and detailed applications with variations.

Anna Soter is Professor in English Education at The Ohio State University. She earned her B.A. in English and History at the University of Western Australia, Perth, and her M.A. in English Language and Literature at the University of Sydney, Australia. She taught English (Grades 7-12) for 15 years in Australia and prior to earning her Ph.D. specializing in cross-cultural written language analysis at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Anna is also a poet and writer of creative nonfiction and short fiction. She teaches language learning, and language methods, poetry, literary theory and young adult literature courses for prospective English Language teachers, and professional development and graduate programs. Professor Soter has also developed a seminar that examines the role of language in the lives we live. She can be contacted by email at soter.1@osu.edu or annasoter@aol.com.

Dedication

Foreword by Robin Troth

Acknowledgements

Figures and Cartoons in Order of Appearance

Introduction

Chapter One

Language as a Function of Purpose: The Conceptual Frame

Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert

Chapter Two

Discourse Communities and Kinds of Language Use

Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert

Chapter Three

Sentence Play (1) Expanding, Combining, Chunking, and Unscrambling

Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert

Chapter Four

Sentence Play (2): Portability, Variability, and Punctuation as Rhetorical Choices

Chapter Five

Style and Language Play

Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert

Chapter Six

Incorporating Diverse Learners’ Knowledge About Language for Language Play

Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert

Chapter Seven

Personalizing The Power of Language

Chapter Eight

The Big Picture: Implementing A Language-Infused English

Language Arts Curriculum

Part II: Back to Basics: Elements of the English Language that Matter in Written

and Formal Spoken Contexts

Cartoon Illustration by David Rickert

Glossary

Annotated Resources

References 394

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Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation Rhetorical Tools for Literate Uses of Language

Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation Rhetorical Tools for Literate Uses of Language

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