SUSAN RUTLEDGE, PhD

"Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or Bad, you have made an impression.  And like all impressions, you are in total control." Jeffrey Gitomer

Dr. Morris-Rutledge will be leading a workshop on grammar instruction in the secondary education classroom.Grammar and usage instruction are integral parts of language arts composition and literature instruction. Lunsford and Lunsford (2008) compiled a list of the top twenty most common writing errors writers make such as unnecessary shifts in verb tense. Using a workshop model, this approach will enable the facilitators to contextualize grammar and usage instruction to focus on the function and practical application of grammar within context, so that “sentence craft and sentence appreciation are not trivial pursuits. They engage us in the stringent and salutary exploration of the linguistic resources out of which our lives are made” (Fish 2011, 159). Participant activities will include sentence combining, grammar as it relates to communication, and criteria to teach grammar.