Mark Honegger

Department Head, Professor of English

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1997

Office: Griffin 221
Phone: 337-482-6907
E-mail: honegger@louisiana.edu

Teaching and Research Areas

Linguistics, Speech/Writing Differences, TESOL, Malay

Noteworthy

Mark Honegger’s book English Grammar for Writing (Houghton Mifflin 2005) teaches grammar from the perspective of comparing with speech with writing. Recent articles include “No Grammar and Grammar Appreciation: Two Approaches to the G-Word” and “ESL and Dialects in the Writing Classroom” in Winning Ways of Coaching Writing: A Practical Guide for Teaching Writing, Grades 6-12 (Allyn & Bacon, 2001) and reviews of three books: Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning and Use of English Interrogatives, Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives, and Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success (for the Journal of English Linguistics).