Have you ever been drawn to a song because of its clever lyrics. You know the song where the music is good, but because of the lyrics, you remember the song. And then there are those songs that have ...

Responding to claims that grammar instruction has become too limited, Zuidema describes field notebooks, mentor texts, show-and-tell essays, and other strategies for engaging students in systematic ...

The field of composition studies draws on research and theories from a broad range of humanistic disciplines—English studies, rhetoric, cultural studies, LGBT studies, gender studies, critical theory, ...

As the language spreads, it needs to become more predictable. Taken with previous studies, the new research offers a two-part answer to why grammar rules are built—and lost.

Here they can be subtle, but they are many: the index of the “Cambridge Grammar of the English Language” mentions regional differences in 95 places.