Posts Tagged ‘sentence grammar’

Into the Webosphere and Beyond!

Friday, February 5th, 2010

February 5, 2010.

My first illustration in an online literary magazine today.  Here’s the link to the magazine and my illustration:  http://www.narwhalmagazine.com/lists/sentence-types.

Here’s the image:

Writing Palettes

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

February 4, 2010.

Here are four writing palettes.  The notion of writing palettes (that is, thinking of the options we have when writing as analogous to the options artists have when painting) comes from Harry Noden’s Image Grammar.  The first three palettes below were taken from the Killgallons’ Grammar for High School, a text I’m teaching this semester in my English Grammar class at ASU.  The fourth palette on sentences I created some time ago.

Illustrating Sentences

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010.

Here below is a version of a drawing I made on the board today in the English Grammar class I’m teaching this spring.  Students read chapter 2 in Kolln and Gray’s Rhetorical Grammar, but I found that the discussion and explanation of the 7 sentence patterns needed further clarification with a drawing that mapped out how these sentence patterns are distinguished by 4 verb types and by their complements and/or objects.