English 3200: A Programmed Course in Grammar and Usage, College Ed.

Normally, a programmed course has the answers directly in the internal margin, where one just ours a bookmarked over it, and as you go through, you pull the book mark down to reveal the answer. In this book.the answer is spread pages away and requiring inefficient searching around. Really poorly put together. Confusing and inefficient.

This is the best book on sentence structure ever. I wish I had this book when I was in school. I read alot of books on grammar and they never work for me. I usually forgot what I read after a day or two. I am an electrical engineer. Math and science are always my best subject while english is my worse. This book show me how to combine simple sentences into compound and complex sentence. How to add adverb and adjective clause into the sentence to make it more meaningful. It show you the same example in many different ways. It is like doing algebra. This book use a scientific approach. You will learn sentence structure and remember it for the rest of your life.

As a journalism student many moons ago, English 3200 saved me from the fate of sixty percent of my peers. Back then, the majority of prospective journalism majors washed out of the College of Communication at my university. The reason? Any paper submitted for a grade with a spelling error, incorrect grammar, punctuation error, or improper formatting earned an automatic "C" with half letter grade deductions for subsequent errors. This book beefed up my English language skills in a hurry and I was able to graduate from the program cum laude. Today, our language has been deconstructed by a pervasive popular culture and educational apathy in public schools as students are ?dumbed down? to the lowest common denominator. English 3200 fights back with a practical vengeance leaving its readers more articulate and fluent in our native tongue. As an adjunct college instructor, I am always distressed, but hardly surprised, to find many foreign-born students more fluent in English than native-born speakers and writers. This book, once completed from cover to cover, provides the proper guidance, as much as most of us will ever require, for expressing ourselves using our native tongue in correct and impressive form.

A bastion of decency for those who are weary of the reckless useage of the English language which pervades every aspect of American life. In addition to serving as a learning tool for the uninitiated, this text is a resource companion for the seasoned communicator.

In high school, I was placed in "dumb" English, but while in the U.S.Army, a friend gave me this book. I read it over and over and this, along with a small pocket dictionary, qualified me for honors English in college. Subsequently, I earned a Medical Degree from UCLA, and I am now a medical writer as well. I recommend English 32000 to all writers and students.

My son was severely learning disabled when I began to home-school him. This text enabled us to find the right approach to learning. Having missed most of his first 6 years of school because of the learning disability...Matt was thrilled to find he understood the basic concepts of grammar. His remark was..."I didn't know I was so smart!" Well, he's still learning disabled and works 2 or 3 times harder than most...but he has learned that programmed instruction such as this works! I highly recommend it.