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Getting Started
- Help is available for SUSHI Wiki formatting and editing basics. This might well be a good place to visit first, even for those of you who are already familiar with Wikis, as the SUSHI Wiki is unique in many ways.
- About Grammar Wiki page will offer some insight and explanation into the Grammar Wiki project. Stop here to get the basic gist of our Wiki.
- About Wikis is a good place to visit if you want to find out more about Wikis.
- Sand Box is an area where you can jump right in and play with our Wiki - Please Do! Write, experiment, see how things work in the Wiki space.
- Grammar Links offers an opportunity to find, and contribute some wonderful grammar sites on the Web.
- Grammar Resources is intended as an area where these resources can be organized, compared, and shared.
- Style Guide, though certainly not set in stone, should help to keep the Grammar Wiki clear and organized with a sense of unity, and continuity.
- Disclaimer, like the Style Guide, and About Grammar Wiki, offers further information to explain what the Grammar Wiki is, hopes to be, and is NOT.
- Contact Us if you have any questions, comments, or (hopefully) advice - Please !
Grammar Contents
- Defining grammar, though often difficult to do, is prerequisite to any clear discussion of grammar and language issues.
- History of grammar , a glimpse back at some origins, offers some insight into the present (and future?) state of grammar.
- Parts of Speech , probably stemming back to the Greeks, and the persistent Latinate, are still fundamental to any discussion of grammar.
- Sentence Structure is still at the heart of our language, and our grammar.
- Mechanics offers a look at some of the physical aspects of writing the symbols, words, and language.
- Punctuation is perhaps a important as grammar itself in allowing for clear communication.
- Usage, often mistakenly and synonymously referred to as grammar, is perhaps one of the more controversial issues of grammar, language, and power.
- Instruction of grammar has long been seen as a necessity in academia. But, for some forty years now, such instruction, and its relevence, has been questioned - and severally challenged.
- ESOL/ESL issues, though similar and parallel to many of the larger issues of grammar and language, pose some unique and challenging considerations of their own.
- Glossary of grammar terms, though certainly not intended to be exhaustive, is offered with the hope that clearer and more common ground might be reached in the vocabulary of the grammar and language discussion.
The Literature (Research)
- An Introduction to the debate that has raged for some four decades now - a debate that all but ended the formal instruction of grammar in American education.
- Elley
- Harris
- Hillocks
- Hartwell
- Kolln
- Discussion of the debate, though nearly muted, has begun to reignite the idea of discovering more about grammar - how it is learned - and taught.
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