All Students Must Learn How to Use Grammar
From the seventh grade, and all through high school, I avoided grammar.
Though I remember clearly the infamous AWK's
and RO's glaring at me from the margins of my returned essays
and reports, I wouldn't go so far as to say that that meant I was learning
"grammar" or even correct writing for that matter. There in green, blue,
and sometimes black ink was the evidence that someone--more powerful, more
knowing, more in control of the English language than I--had read through
my work and found something that wasn't quite right. So I'd rewrite,
revise, reword, and rethink everything, hoping that the next draft would
miraculously make more sense than the last. To me, good, clear writing was
something more akin to magic than skill. And though I had no clue what I
was or was not doing right, I fumbled my way through school.
I mentioned that I was able to avoid grammar (explicit, formal, and
traditional that is) until my junior year of BA work when I was required
by my English department to take and pass a course in grammar. And like
many of my classmates, I grumbled and complained about the requirement.
I knew how to write. What did I need grammar for? I'd received As and Bs
on my papers for as long as I could remember. I knew what I was doing.
Or so I thought. It wasn't until I'd struggled through a semester of
formal grammar, having minor epiphanies along the way (e.g., I found out
what a fragment was, why one shouldn't write "the reason is because," and
what a participle--those things that can dangle--is) that I discovered the
complexities of language. All those mysteries, all those circ...
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