http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/Education/Grammar A listing of the most recently indexed works about Articles and Education and Grammar in the field of technical communication. en-us Copyright (c) 2005-08 by the EServer. All rights reserved. tclib-editorial@eserver.org (TC Library Editorial Board) webmaster@eserver.org (Geoffrey Sauer) http://tc.eserver.org/images/newlogo.gif http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Articles/Education/Grammar http://tc.eserver.org/35585.html http://tc.eserver.org/35585.html When you set yourself up as a grammar expert it's better than being an expert on plastics. To be an expert on plastics you actually have to know something about plastics. With grammar the analogous thing doesn't hold. Nobody asks, nobody checks, nobody knows enough to get suspicious. You are free as a bird to publish any garbage you might want to type out. http://tc.eserver.org/29886.html http://tc.eserver.org/29886.html The conviction that writing can be improved with a knowledge of grammar has prevailed for quite a long time. But research has shown no correlation between grammatical knowledge and writing ability. http://tc.eserver.org/29377.html http://tc.eserver.org/29377.html Let's resist seduction by the mythologies of teaching and keep our grasp on the realities of learning. http://tc.eserver.org/26582.html http://tc.eserver.org/26582.html Business English (BE) and business communication (BC) overlap. English handles linguistic mechanics and style, whereas communication holistically discusses the movement of a message from one person to another. The BC discipline, unfortunately, allows language basics into its pedagogy like a statistics course teaching fundamental mathematics. From the other side, some English courses teach BC before their students are able to handle that material. A subject teaches prepared students. If they are deficient, they are either kept out or the subject matter suffers. http://tc.eserver.org/15202.html http://tc.eserver.org/15202.html Demonstrates how sentence diagramming can be an effective writing tool and offers tips on how it should be taught.