Detailed Information for David Rankin

“Teaching Metaphor,” an article in the Journal of College Composition and Communication, October, 1970.

“Grammars and Composition,” a paper presented at the National Conference on College Composition and Communication, Anaheim, CA, March, 1974.

Fundamentals of Fiction, a textbook.  Co-author with Earl J. Wilcox.  Boston, Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1976.

“Syntax and Style in Composition,” a paper presented at the National Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, March, 1977.

“Syntactic Elements of Style,” an article in Language and Style, an international journal, spring, 1979.

The New Grammarsa series of 24 ½-hour television programs for South Carolina Educational Television.  Wrote all scripts and was the on-camera teacher-host for the series.  Series aired in 1979 and again in 1980.

“Linear Expansion and Redundancy in Natural Language and Art,” a paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Computers in the Humanities, North Carolina State University, June 8, 1983.  Co-author J. F. Crook.  Paper also selected for and published in the proceedings.

“Doubleplusungrammatizing the Proles and Us,” a paper presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on the Humanities, Ohio State University, May 4-6, 1984.

“Changes in the Information Theoretical Structure of English,” a paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Computers in the Humanities, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, June 15, 1985.

Fundamentals of Fictiona textbook.  Co-author with Earl J. Wilcox.  Reprinted by University Press of America, August, 1993.

Out of Line(tentative title) a book on structural parallels between language and culture.  Will  submit proposal to the Scholarly and Reference Division of Palgrave Macmillan this fall.