English language -- Composition and exercises
Here are entered works of an elementary character containing exercises in, and treatises on English composition. More advanced works on English composition are entered under the headings English language -- Rhetoric and English language -- Style.
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- English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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- English language -- Grammar
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The High School Writing Center: Establishing and Maintaining One (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, c1989), ed. by Pamela B. Childers (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)- Composition Studies as a Creative Art: Teaching, Writing, Scholarship, Administration (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Lynn Z. Bloom (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Community English: A Book of Undertakings for Boys and Girls (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Mildred Buchanan Flagg
- How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition (author's copyright edition; Boston: Robert Bros., 1883), by Edwin A. Abbott
- Imitation and Analysis: English Exercises Based on Irving's Sketch Book (Boston et al.: Allyn and Bacon, c1902), by Francis P. Donnelly, contrib. by Washington Irving
- A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition, For the Use of Colleges and Schools (Louisville, KY: J. P. Morton and Co., 1867), by John Mitchell Bonnell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (c1985), ed. by Anne Ruggles Gere (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Programs and Practices: Writing Across the Secondary School Curriculum (c1994), ed. by Pamela B. Childers, Anne Ruggles Gere, and Art Young (PDF with commentary at Colorado State)
- First Lessons in Composition (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by G. P. Quackenbos
- Guide to Composition (Chicago and New York: Scott, Foresman and Co., c1919), by James Finch Royster and Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
- Primer and Language Lessons in English and Cree, by E. B. Glass, trans. by John McDougall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar and Co., 1863), by L. Branson
- Lessons in Reading-Writing-Arithmetic, for Special School Work in Georgia (Atlanta: C. P. Byrd, state printer, 1916), by Georgia Department of Education
- Alternatives to Grading Student Writing (c1997), ed. by Stephen Tchudi (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing (revised edition, c2010), by IRA/NCTE Joint Task Force on Assessment (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1997), ed. by Kathleen Blake Yancey and Irwin Weiser (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press; Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, c1999), ed. by Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Coming to Terms: Theorizing Writing Assessment in Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Patricia Lynne (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009), by Bob Broad, Linda Adler-Kassner, Barry Alford, Jane Detweiler, Heidi Estrem, Susanmarie Harrington, Maureen McBride, Eric Stalions, and Scott Weeden (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Alternatives to Grading Student Writing (c1997), ed. by Stephen Tchudi (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (1996-) (full serial archives)
- Composing Research: A Contextualist Paradigm for Rhetoric and Composition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2000), by Cindy Johanek (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- How Writing Shapes Thinking: A Study of Teaching and Learning (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, c1987), by Judith A. Langer and Arthur N. Applebee (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Yoga Minds, Writing Bodies: Contemplative Writing Pedagogy (c2015), by Christy I. Wenger (PDF and Epub at Colorado State)
- WAC for the New Millennium: Strategies for Continuing Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs (c2001), ed. by Susan H. McLeod, Eric Miraglia, Margot Soven, and Christopher Thaiss (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Genre and the Invention of the Writer: Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Anis S. Bawarshi (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- Preparing Teachers to Teach Writing Using Technology (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2013), ed. by Kristine E. Pytash, Richard E. Ferdig, and Timothy V. Rasinski (PDF with commentary at CMU)
- Designing Writing Assignments (c2008), by Traci Gardner (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
- Teaching Beginning Reading and Writing with the Picture Word Inductive Model, by Emily Calhoun (HTML with commentary at ascd.org)
- Coming to Terms: Theorizing Writing Assessment in Composition Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Patricia Lynne (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
- English Pattern Practices: Establishing the Patterns as Habits (revised edition of part of "An Intensive Course in English"; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1958), by University of Michigan English Language Institute, contrib. by Robert Lado and Charles C. Fries (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Analytic and Practical Grammar of the English Language (Raleigh, NC: N. C. Christian Advocate Pub. Co., 1864), by Peter Bullions and B. Craven
- An Analytical, Illustrative, And Constructive Grammar of the English Language (third edition; Raleigh, NC: W. L. Pomeroy, 1862), by Brantley York
- First Lessons in Composition (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by G. P. Quackenbos
- A Grammar of the English Language (Philadelphia: Sower, Barnes and Potts, 1866), by William Fewsmith and Edgar A. Singer
- Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition (revised edition, 1896), by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg (Gutenberg text)
- Mary's Grammar: Interspersed With Stories, and Intended for the Use of Children (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835), by Mrs. Marcet
- An Outline of English Speech-Craft (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1878), by William Barnes (Gutenberg text)
- Pinneo's Analytical Grammar of the English Language, Designed for Schools (revised and enlarged; New York: Clark, Austin, and Smith; Cincinnati: W. B. Smith and Co., c1850), by T. S. Pinneo
- A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases, and Sentences Are Classified According to Their Offices, and Their Various Relations to One Another Illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams (revised edition; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; et al., 1863), by S. W. Clark (multiple formats at Google)
- A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases, and Sentences Are Classified According to Their Offices, and Their Various Relations to One Another Illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams (40th edition, revised; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1868), by S. W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
- First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar and Co., 1863), by L. Branson
- Crowell's Dictionary of English Grammar, and Handbook of American Usage (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1928), by Maurice H. Weseen (page images at HathiTrust)
- A New English Accidence, by Way of Short Question and Answer, Build Upon the Plan of the Latin Grammar, So Far As Agrees With, and is Consistent With the Nature and Genius of the English Tongue (London: Printed for J. Hodges and sold by H. Boad et al., 1736) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The First Part of the Elementarie Which Entreateth Chieflie of the Right Writing of our English Tung, by Richard Mulcaster (zipped TEI at OTA)
- Guide to Grammar and Style (electronic edition, 2011), by Jack Lynch (HTML with commentary at jacklynch.net)
- Handbook for Writers (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition of "The Flat World Knowledge Handbook for Writers", ca. 2011), by Miles McCrimmon
- Our Own Elementary Grammar, Intermediate Between the Primary and High School Grammars, and Especially Adapted to the Wants of the Common Schools (Greensboro, NC: Sterling, Campbell and Albright; et al., 1863), by Charles W. Smythe
- Smith's English Grammar, on the Productive System. Revised and Improved, and Adapted to the Use of Schools in the Confederate States (second edition; Richmond, VA: G.L. Bidgood, 1864), by Roswell Chamberlain Smith
- Sir Hornbook: or, Childe Launcelot's Expedition: A Grammatico-Allegorical Ballad, by Thomas Love Peacock (HTML at thomaslovepeacock.net)
- Composition and Punctuation, Familiarly Explained for Those Who Have Neglected the Study of Grammar, and Wherein Foreigners Who May Be Learning English Will Also Find Information Calculated to Facilitate Their Progress in the Understanding of the Language (sixth edition; London: E. Wilson, 1849), by Justin Brenan
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