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  • Essay / The Importance of Grammar in Writing - 1065

    I believe that students feel intimidated by all the rules that teachers try to teach them with grammar. However, writing lessons encourage students to release their barriers with writing and also encourage the release of their inner thoughts. In the study taken from Patrick Hartwell's article, he mentions that “Grammar 1 is therefore eminently usable knowledge – the way we construct our lives through language – but it is not accessible knowledge; in a deep sense, we do not know that we have it (Hartwell). This article encourages our grammatical knowledge, which we have unknowingly stored away, to be put to good use and this could especially be the case if we let students hand in their unedited writing to the teacher to examine their errors but not 'makes no correction. Then, students use a red pen to correct their mistakes and revise their copy themselves so that the teacher understands which grammar errors the students can correct themselves. In this way, students' strengths and weaknesses in grammar are taken into account beyond the teaching of grammar rules. In order to learn and understand grammar, it must be a part of students' education as it helps them correct their neglected errors and with professionalism in mind. Grammar is necessary, as Christensen's article summarizes when she says: "We need to teach our students how to match subjects and verbs, how to pronounce lawyer, because they are the ones who have no power and , for the moment, they must use the language of the powerful to be heard (Christensen). Grammar is nevertheless important to our writing; Grammar should not be the focus of how we write, but our thoughts should