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Back MatterSource: TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Sep., 1972), pp. 286-288Published by: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3585854 .

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Announcement

We are pleased to announce that WORKING PAPERS IN ENGLISH FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY are now complete. Copies of the five progress reports are now available free of charge from the address appearing below.

In 1970-71, we undertook a research project to study the ways in which rhetorical function and grammatical choice are interrelated in scientific and technical English. The purpose of our research was 1) to investigate the relationship between grammatical choice and rhetorical function in English for Science and Technology (EST) and 2) to explore applications of the results of this research to the teaching of scientific and technical reading and writing, both to native and non-native speakers.

We initially isolated two areas of grammar: articles and tense choice; these two were chosen because they are typical sources of student dif- ficulty and because they seemed amenable to our approach. Recently, as generative grammar has become increasingly interested in problems of meaning and context, we have become influenced by the concern of these linguists with the notion of presupposition and its effect upon surface syntax. The most commonly accepted definition of "presupposition" in theoretical linguistics is that of "information shared by the speaker and listener." What has intrigued us is that presupposition in EST (defined as "information that the writer assumes that the reader shares with him") seems to affect surface syntax in precisely the areas we have worked on-articles and tense choice. Thus we in Working Papers chose to investigate articles, tense choice, and presupposition.

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A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR and

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A concise, detailed and easy-to- understand explanation of the "building blocks" of American- English grammar.

The Center for English Lan- guage Research and Teaching lists A PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR as one of the basic reference books for ESL stu- dents and teachers.

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WRITING ENGLISH: A Composition Text in English as a Foreign Language, by JANET ROSS AND GLADYS DOTY A composition textbook for advanced students of English as a foreign language. Begins with basic sentence patterns, demonstrating how each element in the sentence may be expanded or modified. 1965. Paper. 283 pp.; $4.95.

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