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David Mulroy, grammar hero, debunker of anti-grammarian myths
One of the great joys of reading is finding a writer who expresses one’s cherished beliefs, one who writes about them with such meticulous authority that one wants to jump from one’s chair, run into...
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Hero worship: Musings on Mulroy’s “War Against Grammar”
My previous post outlined David Mulroy’s incisive brief for formal instruction in punctuation, grammar and syntax, “The War Against Grammar.” Here’s why Mulroy’s 2003 book made me so happy. First, his...
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Where do we go from here, fellow grammar nerds?
After reading my posts on David Mulroy’s book “The War Against Grammar,” my friend and colleague Ann Marie Horbey asked: “So where do we go from here? Are we language mavens* resigned to shaking our...
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Constructing a grammar course for journalism undergraduates
Commenters on my previous post discussed the fear that contemplating grammar induces in adults who never learned it in grammar school. Those of us stuck with the results of K-12’s failure to teach...
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