Grammar and Style Choices for College Writers

This  textbook provides a practical guide to grammar and style choices for  college writers, giving students a basic vocabulary for thinking and  talking about language use and enabling them to make purposeful choices  in their writing.

Each section includes a short  overview of a grammatical topic accompanied by exercises for raising the  students’ awareness of and skills in using specific grammatical  structures. It focuses on the practical and rhetorical functions of  grammatical structures as they are used in expository and analytic  writing, rather than on de-contextualized grammatical rules. Students  will develop a repertoire of grammatical choices and understand the  strategic reasons for making these choices in their writing for various  audiences. It particularly attends to the structures that present the  most difficulty for college students from multilingual communities and  communities where a non-standard dialect of English is used on a daily  basis. 

This textbook can be used as a core textbook  for grammar course as well as a supplementary text for composition  courses. It is also suitable for courses tailored to multilingual,  advanced non-native, or non-standard speakers of English.