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This is the first edition of The Grammar You Need, Level 1: Developing Details. The second edition (ISBN # 9780866475730) is now available. Consequently, this first edition is being offered at half price until inventory is depleted. The Grammar You Need series (three levels) covers essential grammar for the purpose of writing in English in an academic setting. Each fold-out card provides clear, full-color visuals showing how the grammar structures work and how to apply them. Students can download free workbooks from ProLinguaLearning.com and can also take advantage of the powerful web application for this series at TheGrammarYouNeed.com. Level 2 of the series, Developing Details, improves students' skills in adding details to nouns, expressing ideas with verbs, writing with sentence variety, using passive voice, stating facts, predictions, and hypotheses, and more.
About the author
Eileen Cotter, lead author for The Grammar You Need levels 1-2 has a Master's of Education from Boston University. She has taught all levels from early childhood to college credit classes. In addition to teaching ESL classes, she has taught numerous workshops and written an ESL textbook on second language writing. Her work on The Grammar You Need materials includes co-authoring cards, the extensive online workbooks and web applications. She also edited the second edition of the well-known teacher training textbook, The ELT Grammar Book.
