Rhetorical Grammar: Grammatical Choices, Rhetorical Effects (3rd Edition)

RHETORICAL GRAMMAR is a writer's grammar - it presents grammar as a rhetorical tool. It provides a systematic way of discussing coherence and transition, reader expectation, sentence stress and rhythm, subordination and coordination, punctuation, and other principles, and of explaining - within the context of an individual student's writing - why one phrase is “awkward” and another phrase “a gem of precision.