Teaching Grammar and Editing in Public Administration

Knox, C. C. (2013). Teaching grammar and editing in public administration: Lessons learned from early offerings of an undergraduate administrative writing course.  Journal of Public Affairs Education ,  19 (3), 515-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/15236803.2013.12001749 . 

The author indicates the necessity of solid writing skills among college graduates since the workforce requires full possession of skills. Therefore, the article focuses on the importance of incorporating administrative writing and designs in all semesters. The author concluded that all graduates should understand the skills found in government, non-government, and community organizations to communicate effectively. Also, the courses can be designed to accommodate many approaches such as teaching grammar, writing in all disciplines such as freewriting and journals, combining sentences, improving assignments, formatting, and various methods of applying the skills. Some of the article's strengths include articulating available problems well and offering many solutions to the problem by anticipating a unique situation on education courses and providing an immediate solution. For instance, the lack of incorporation of programs in all years has been articulated. However, some of the outstanding limitations and weaknesses include its inadequacy in reporting about the general writing skills since the article concentrated only on the student's progress, rather than implementing the designs in all courses. The article can be relevant in teaching grammar and writing since it can act as reference material for solutions and strategies that all students in both in-house and other departments, and future research on learning objectives. 

Reference 

Knox, C. C. (2013). Teaching grammar and editing in public administration: Lessons learned from early offerings of an undergraduate administrative writing course.  Journal of Public Affairs Education ,  19 (3), 515-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/15236803.2013.12001749 .