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Featured Topic: Grammar and Usage

Getting It Right: Fresh Approaches to Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Correctness

Getting It Right demonstrates how individual teachers can teach grammar, usage, and correctness more successfully as well as how an entire school or department can work together to improve the teaching of writing. More ›

Keeping the Comma Splice Queen Happy

Suzanne Cherry finds that relating the concepts of punctuation and grammar to real–world experiences—in this example, through an intriguing demonstration involving electrical tape—helps students realize and correct their errors successfully. More ›

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NWP Bookstore

Browse our collection of books written for teachers by teachers to stimulate your thinking about classroom practice, teacher research, and professional development for teachers of writing. More ›

Other Publications

Read the Professional Writing Retreat Handbook, archives of The Voice and The Quarterly, NWP brochures, annual reports, and other downloadable publications. More ›

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