Considering Cultural Difference, A Longman Topics Reader, 1st edition
Published by Pearson (October 22, 2003) © 2004
- Laura Vernon Utah State University
- Tamara M. Valentine
- Horace Walpole
- Harvey S. Wiener
- Lawrence Weinstein
- Pauline Uchmanowicz
- Oscar Wilde Â
- Henry Mackenzie
- Andrew Elfenbein University of Minnesota
- Thomas Finn
- Laura Mandell
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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 they 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.
Instead of a rules-driven approach, comprehensive in scope and exhaustive in examples, Grammar Moves uses brevity and humor to engage students and offer them a different way to understand grammar.
- 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.
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
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