Applebee, Arthur N. Tradition and Reform in the Teaching of English. NCTE, 1974.

Berlin, Isaiah. Vico and Herder. NY: Viking. 1976.

Berthoff, Ann E. The Making of Meaning. Upper Montclair: Boynton/Cook, 1981.

Bloomfield, Leonard. Language. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. One of the major works of descriptive linguistics.

Bruner, Jerome S. The Relevance of Education. NY: Norton, 1971. Bruner is bright.

Chomsky, Noam. Syntactic Structures. The Hague: Mouton. 1957. His most influential work.

Christensen, Francis. Notes Toward a New Rhetoric. 2nd. ed. NY: Harper & Row, 1978.

Corbett, Edward P.J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. 2nd ed. NY: Oxford University Press, 1971.

Crystal, David. Child Language, Learning and Linguistics. London: Edward Arnold, 1976.

_____. "The Past, Present, and Future of English Parsing." English Today, July 1985.

Curme. George O. A Grammar of the English Language. 2 vols. Boston: D.C. Heath. 1931-35.

Davis, Frederica. "In Defense of Grammar." English Education 16, No. 3 (Oct. 84) 151-164. Includes a letter from Noam Chomsky.

Elley, W.B., I.H. Barham, H. Lamb and M. Wyllie. The Role of Grammar in a Secondary School Curriculum. Wellington, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1979.

Faigley, Lester. "Names in Search of a Concept: Maturity, Fluency, Complexity, and Growth in Written Syntax." CCC 31 (Oct. 30): 291-299.

Gambell, Trevor. "What High School Teachers Have to Say about Student Writing and Language across the Curriculum." English Journal, Sept. 84. 43. 

Gibson, Walker. Tough, Sweet, and Stuffy. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1966. An interesting book about style.

Gleason, H.A. Linguistics and English Grammar. New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1965.

Hall, Lawrence. How Thinking Is Written. Boston: Heath, 1963.

Hartwell, Patrick "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar." College English. Feb. 85: 105-127.

Holt, John. "How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading" In The Norton Reader. Ed. Arthur M. Eastman, et al. Sixth Edition. NY: Norton. 224-232.

Hunt, Kellogg. "Early Blooming and Late Blooming Syntactic Structures." In Evaluating Writing: Describing, Measuring, Judging. ed. Charles R. Cooper and Lee Odell. Urbana: NCTE, 1977, 91-106.

_____.  Grammatical Structures Written at Three Grade Levels. Urbana,  Ill.: NCTE, 1965.

_____. Syntactic Maturity in School Children and Adults. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 35 (1, Serial No. 134.) 1970.

Jespersen, J. Otto. The Philosophy of Grammar. New York: Norton, 19965. First published in 1924. Develops the concepts of "nexus" and "junction."

Killian, Joyce K. "Preparing English Teachers: The Cooperating Teachers' View." English Education. Feb. 83. 136-142.

Kuhn, Thomas E. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Langer, Suzanne E. Philosophy in a New Key. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957.

Loban, Walter, et al. Language Development: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1976. This is a very important study.

Lovell, K. "The Concept of Time." The Growth of Basic Mathematical and Scientific Concepts in Children. NY: Philosophical Library, 1961. 75-90.

Malmstrom, Jean. Grammar Basics: A Reading/Writing Approach. 2nd ed. Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden Book Company, 1977. An example of an attempt to teach transformational grammar in the schools.

Mellon, John C. Transformational Sentence Combining: A Method for Enhancing the Development of Syntactic Fluency in English Composition. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1969.

Miles, Josephine. Style and Proportion: The Language of Prose and Poetry. Boston: Little, Borwn, 1967.

Miller, George A. "The Magical Number Seven Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information." Psychological Review 63 (1956) 81-97.

Neuleib, Janice & Irene Brosnahan. "Teaching Grammar to Writers," Journal of Basic Writing. Spring 87 (Vol. 6, No.1).

North, Stephen M. The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field. Upper Montclair: Boynton/Cook. 1987.

O'Donnell, Roy. et al. Syntax of Kindergarten and Elementary School Children: A Transformational Analysis. Champaign: NCTE, 1967.

O'Hare, Frank. Sentence Combining: Improving Student Writing Without Formal Grammar Instruction. Urbana, Ill. NCTE, 1973. (If I can't say something nice, ...)

O'Rourke, Bill. "'Lion Tamers and Baby Sitters': First-Year English Teachers' Perceptions of Their Undergraduate Preparation." English Education. Feb. 83. 21-22.

Roberts, Paul. Patterns of English. New York: Harper & Row, 1956. This is his structural textbook.

_____ . Understanding Grammar. New York: Harper & Row, 1954. This is the best pedagogical, traditional grammar I have found.

Shaughnessy, Mina. Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. NY: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Smith, Frank. Reading without Nonsense. NY: Teachers College Press, 1979.

Suhor, Charles. "Thinking Visually about Writing." in Speaking and Writing K-12: Classroom Strategies and the New Research. NCTE, 1984, 74-103.

Taylor, Sharon J. "Grammar Curriculum--Back to Square One." English Journal. Jan 86. 94-98.

Vygotsky, Lev. Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Ed. Michael Cole Et al. Boston: Harvard U.P., 1978.

_____. Thought and Language. Trans. Eugenia Hanfmann & Gertrude Vakar. MIT Press, 1962. 

Waddell, Marie L., Robert M. Esch and Roberta R. Walker. The Art of Styling Sentences: 20 Patterns to Success. Woodbury, NY: Barron's Educational Series, 1972.
 

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