Styles, Grammars, Authors, and Users

Abstract

Using a grammar to understand style can be seen, for students, as involving two main tasks: cultivating a standard of stylistic correctness and converging the language defined by the grammar and the language of stylistically correct designs. I discuss a framework for organizing such an experience, consider how it informs the way we write grammars, present an example (including a grammar), and report on a classroom experience.