Grammar, tradition, and the living language / David B. Umbach -- The persistence of traditional grammar / Edwin Battistella -- Prestige English is not a natural language / Nicholas Sobin -- Rethinking prescriptivism / John Myhill -- Dialect awareness programs in the school and community / Walt Wolfram -- Linguistics is for kids / Jeannine M. Donna -- Looking at life through language / Patricia L. MacGregor-Mendoza -- In front of our eyes : undergraduates reflecting on language change / Anca M. Nemoianu -- Grammar teaching is dead-not! / Richard Hudson -- Writing standard English is acquiring a second language / Susan K. Heck -- Reading, writing, and linguistics : principles from the little red schoolhouse / Gail Brendel Viechnicki -- Copious reasoning : the student writer as an astute observer of language / Todd Oakley -- Writing well in an unknown language : linguistics and composition in an English department / Victor Raskin -- Waterships all the way down : using science fiction to teach linguistics / Suzette Haden Elgin -- In fiction, whose speech, whose vision? / Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- The poetics of everyday conversation / Deborah Tannen -- Who wrote your dictionary? : demystifiying the contents and construction of dictionaries / Sylvia Shaw -- Online resources for grammar teachig and learning : the internet grammar of English / Bas Aarts, Gerald Nelson, and Justin Buckley.