Research consistently shows that grammar instruction does not improve writing.
Questions
1. Research consistently shows that grammar instruction does not improve writing. Why do you think this is?
2. Develop the best causal argument you can show how grammar instruction does not lead to improvements in writing, but rather leads to other outcomes.
3. Cynthia Selfe and Gail Hawisher (2004) apply the term literacy of technology to describe technology use (p. 2) beyond the \”functional\” skills required to use a computer. In this sense, their application of \”literacy\” borrows from and builds upon Deborah Brandt\’s (1999). They explain that \”literacies of technology [serves] as an all-encompassing phrase to connect social practices, people, technology, values, and literate activity, which, in turn, are embedded in a larger cultural ecology\” (p. 2). Name a literate practice in which you regularly participate.
What role does technology play in the literate practice you described? How did you come to be able to use the technology? In other words, what \”sponsored\” your use of the technology (or technologies) you routinely use to carry out the literate practice you described earlier?
