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Dr.
Tony Hunter’s widely successful, student-friendly grammar
and writing text The
Hunter Writing System: Sentence Sense combines
a hands-on, step-by-step grammar program with thorough and
innovative composition teaching.
Note
this report from a middle-school teacher:
"This
program is so systematic it's easy. After 12 chapters, my
8th grade students write not only with maturity but also
with sophistication. I would never return to the old way of
teaching."
(Barbara Stubbs, Clearview High School,
Mullica Hill, NJ)
[See
below for additional testimonials.]
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Relies on hands-on
definitions and exercises;
[See
Rationale]
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Includes error-free ways to find verbs; [same]
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Instills self-confidence and fluency;
[See
article on research]
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Enables correctness on first drafts;
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Provides innovative composition instruction; [See
Author's Corner]
» Has
research support; [see
below]
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Is
reasonably priced. [see
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Author's
Credentials
Anthony D. Hunter's doctorate is from
Teachers College, Columbia University. A published author, his
teaching experience includes twenty-three years
of college-level English and nine years of high-school English (three of
these in a second-language setting).
[For
a fuller listing of the author's credentials, click
here.]
More
Testimonials
These
testimonials--and the ones above--are excerpts from the full listing (and wording) of the tributes
supplied in the testimonials
pages.
High
School: For
her 12th graders,
she found that "the explanations made the complex seem obvious" and "the stress on sequenced mastery of concepts made the learning
possible--before this text, they were frustrated."
(Suzanne Wolfrom, Belleview School, Westminster, CO)
High
School:
Consistently for 3 years,
85-90% of his students have passed the Regents Competency Test because of
instruction in this text. (Art George, Allen Residential Center, South Kortright, NY)
College:
After 5 chapters
and 21 days of instruction, two thirds of his class of very weak students
passed the requirements for
Freshman Composition (a 50% larger proportion than in the previous years).
The students were just short of being classified ESL learners. (Salvatore
Amico Buttaci, Bergen C.C., NJ)
College:
This instructor tells stories of many students (in the classes for which she has adopted
this text)--including ESL, nontraditional, and learning disabled students--who
begin her classes silently with heads cast toward the floor and doing almost
nothing correctly but who at the end of the course tease her over how well they
write. (Sandy
Cornish, Southeastern C.C., IA)
Home-Schooling
Parent:
"My
daughter (in 6th grade) hates to write and hates grammar, but she loves to work
in your text [which teaches only writing and grammar]." (Donna
Meyers, MD)
Home-Schooling
Parent: After
completing the Sentence Sense text in 10th
grade, my daughter entered college in her junior year and was the best student
in her college freshman writing class.
(Terry
Zimmer, VA)
Adult-Level
Instruction: A
man who had repeatedly failed the writing section of the GED (and people were
concerned that he never would pass it--"he had trouble making his thoughts
come out on paper") studied Sentence Sense daily for
two months on his own and did successfully pass it [the writing section of the GED];
he had completed six chapters.
(Fred
W. Scott, Ellsworth Correctional Facility, KS)
Adult-Level
Instruction:
A man reading
at the 2nd grade level improved to the 10th grade level after 15 class hours of
instruction in Sentence Sense--an advance that was
unprecedented in this teacher's experience.
(Tim
Wohlfeld, Jessup FCI, GA)
[For
more--and more complete--testimonials, click here.]
Research
Results--with Slightly Learning Disabled 7th Graders
In an experimental study, the "overall
writing competence" of the
group taught Sentence Sense for 6 months improved 59%. This
result was significant at the .02 level of confidence (that is, there was 1 chance in 50 that the result was not due to the experimental
treatment). Improvements by component were as follows: in punctuation &
capitalization, +110%; in complexity, +42%; in organization, +40%; and in the number of words
written, +41%. The percentages of improvement
are based on differences in the
NPR (National Percentile Rank) scores on pre- and posttest writing samples that
were scored according to the criteria of the Test of Written Language-2
(TOWL-2). [See
"A
Grammar That Has Clearly Improved Writing," English Journal 85.7
(Nov. 1996), 102-107.]
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to "Has research support]
[See
our
chart that contrasts these results with the differences in scores
for the control group and for helpful comments. To
read the whole article, click on the name of the article above.]
Company
Information
Hunter and Joyce Publishing Company
To Learn ... for Keeps
21 Turner Lane
Loudonville, NY 12211
800-745-3377
(518-465-7994)
Fax: 518-465-7994
E-mail: info@writingforkeeps.com
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