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Integrating grammar and composition, this comprehensive new edition guides the advanced student through progressively more complex types of writing by organizing the grammar lessons on a functionalist basis around the needs of composition. This innovative approach to teaching Spanish grammar and composition promotes systematic language development and enables students to strengthen their expressive and editing skills in the language in order to write more effectively and more confidently. Refined by years of classroom testing and analysis of the problems students encounter, this bestselling textbook has been substantially rewritten and incorporates current research in composition, pedagogy, second-language acquisition, and linguistics. Expanded self-correcting exercises are also available online, making ""Gramatica para la"" composition one of the most valuable textbooks available for advanced students of Spanish. This title focuses on work in six level-appropriate types of composition: description, synopsis, personal narrative, creative narrative, exposition, and argumentation. It is based on ACTFL guidelines for students progressing from intermediate to advanced levels of proficiency. It covers syntax, dictionary skills, problematic word distinctions, and rhetorical features of discourse structure. It contains exercises on grammar practice, working with sentences and paragraphs, guided essays, and free composition. New to the second Edition: each lesson has been clearly divided into two distinct parts - presentation (material that students prepare before class) and Application (the activities they do in class or as homework); and, practices individuals have been expanded and recreated as self-checking exercises that provide immediate feedback and scoring. These practices are available for free online at our associated website. It includes images from William Bull's ""Visual Grammar of Spanish"" help with distinctions that seem difficult. It contains an Instructor's Manual - available for free online - reviews teaching and grading methodology for writing-intensive courses, offers suggestions for syllabus organization and for teaching each lesson, and provides additional exercises and activities. To download this free PDF, visit our associated website. Free website created by authors contains self-checking exercises at our associated website.

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This comprehensive text is an invaluable contribution to materials for the teaching of Spanish at upper-intermediate and advanced levels... Highly recommended: it will be used with pleasure by students and teachers alike. -- eLanguage.net

This comprehensive text is an invaluable contribution to materials for the teaching of Spanish at upper-intermediate and advanced levels... Highly recommended: it will be used with pleasure by students and teachers alike. -- eLanguage.net

This comprehensive text is an invaluable contribution to materials for the teaching of Spanish at upper-intermediate and advanced levels... Highly recommended: it will be used with pleasure by students and teachers alike. eLanguage.net

One of the most attractive features separating Gramatica para la Composicion from other textbooks of its kind is the descriptive adequacy of grammatical explanations...The instructor finds sound and insightful explanations of complex issues of Spanish grammar...Learning activities include a rich variety of exercises that combine mechanical practice with open-ended tasks, always carefully designed to assist the learner. Indeed, this is a very good textbook for the advanced undergraduate learner of Spanish. --Hildebrando Ruiz Morales, University of Georgia Praise for the First Edition: This innovative text...sets a new standard in its genre and deserves to be widely adopted for the teaching of grammar and composition --The Modern Language Journal This book does a magnificent job of covering everything that is typically presented in a Spanish composition course. In the thirty years that I have taught, I have never encountered anything that could hold a candle to Gramatica para la composicion; this work will surely become the standard-bearer of the profession. --Richard V. Teschner, The University of Texas at El Paso With its clear explanations and wide variety of exercises, this textbook provides ample opportunity for students to acquire both the linguistic knowledge and the organizational skills needed for producing well-written compositions in Spanish. --Michael Reider, West Virginia University The breadth and depth of each lesson's treatment of the requisite and relevant grammar points is remarkable: the ins and outs of Spanish structure and vocabulary (especially points troublesome to English speakers) are here clarified and exemplified...an invaluable review and reference grammar which students will consult again and again, as they likely make this one textbook that they will not sell back to the bookstore at the end of the semester. --Philip W. Klein, University of Iowa

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M. Stanley Whitley is professor of Spanish and linguistics at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Spanish/English Contrasts: A Course in Spanish Linguistics and coauthor of Pronouncing English: A Stress-Based Approach with CD-ROM. Luis Gonzalez is associate professor of Spanish at Wake Forest University.

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