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Overview

About the Grammar for Great The resulting grammar syllabus is based on
WritinG series actual student needs, not a pre-determined list of
grammar points. All the grammatical structures
Grammar for Great Writing is a three-book series included in this series meet at least one of these
that helps students with the specific grammar they two criteria: (1) nonnative writers make errors
actually need to strengthen their academic writing. using the structure, or (2) nonnative writers tend to
Activities feature academic vocabulary and content, avoid using the structure.
providing clear models for good academic writing. The material taught in all three books is corpus-
Ideal for the grammar component of a writing and informed, using a variety of corpora or corpus-
grammar class, Grammar for Great Writing may be based resources, including the Academic Word List
used as a companion to the Great Writing series or (Coxhead, 2000), the Corpus of Contemporary English
in conjunction with any academic writing textbook.
(Davies, 2008–), the Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level
This series consists of three levels: A, B, and C. Student Papers (Ädel & Römer, 2012), student papers

Book A is for low intermediate students and is from our own courses, as well as empirical research
designed to complement the writing and grammar studies of nonnative student writing. Because
found in Great Writing 2. vocabulary is such an integral part of good academic
writing, we have also included a corpus-informed
Book B is for intermediate students and is vocabulary section, Academic Vocabulary, in each unit.
designed to complement the writing and grammar
found in Great Writing 3. orgANizAtioN

Book C is for upper intermediate to advanced Each of the three books in this series consists
students and is designed to complement the of 15 units, and each unit focuses solidly on one
writing and grammar found in Great Writing 4. area of grammar that causes problems for ESL and

EFL writers. These 45 grammar points have been
the reseArCh behiND this series selected based on input from experienced English
language teachers and student writers. Although
One of the most important differences between
Grammar for Great Writing and more traditional many grammar points appear in only one book,
grammar series is the research base that informed others are so important that they appear in more
our grammar choices as we developed this series. than one book. Students work with the grammar
A traditional grammar series starts with a list of pre- point in increasingly more complex sentences and
determined grammar points that will be covered, rhetorical modes as they progress through the
and then exercises are developed for those different levels of the series.
grammar points. For Grammar for Great Writing, The units have been carefully designed so
however, we started by reviewing academic writing that they may be taught in any order. In fact, it
by both nonnative and native students. We looked is possible to skip units if teachers believe that a
at ESL and EFL student writing to identify the particular grammar point is not problematic for their
most common grammar challenges. At the same students. In other words, teachers should review
time, we looked at papers by students in university the Scope and Sequence, which calls out the
classes to identify grammatical structures that are common student errors addressed in each unit, and
common in academic writing but not sufficiently carefully choose which of the 15 grammar topics to
used in our students’ writing. present and in which order.

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