Saturday, November 21, 2009

Review: African American English and the Composition Classroom

review by David west brown

praises the book in general, but has two caveats: register is a far more complicated issue than the authors make it out to be, and cite Hillocks and Smith 1986 as proof of that sentence-combining is useful in teaching grammar.

The book is fair and balanced, written for the layperson, and makes complex ideas accessible to teachers.

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