Next Level Training Module
Beyond Grammar: Teaching Style in Context
Instructional Goals
- Review the research regarding teaching grammar in context
- Develop teaching strategies for analyzing published writing for style
- Develop teaching strategies for improving students' grammar and style within the context of their own writing
Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (English IV) Objectives Addressed
- Writing: 1 C,E; 2 C,D,E,H; 3 A,B,C; 5 A; 6 A,B
- Reading: 7 F
About the Authors
Valerie Balester is an associate professor at Texas A&M University and executive director of the University Writing Center. She specializes in rhetoric and composition and has an interest in Discourse Studies. Dr. Balester has long been an advocate of writing centers and started one at Texas A&M in 1990 with English graduate students. She also served four years as the Director of Writing Programs, training and supervising writing teachers for first-year composition, technical writing, and writing about literature.
Courtney Wellmann teaches in the English Department at A&M Consolidated High School in College Station, Texas. Her current teaching assignments are English II Pre-AP, Journalism, and Advanced Journalism, including responsibility for the school newspaper, The Roar.
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