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My C2 Proficiency book review: Grammar Nonsense and What To Do about It

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Most writing prompts in the C2 Proficiency writing test consist of three points. One problem I often see in students' answers is that the answer is three isolated pieces, rather than one complete whole. In this book review I wrote for my C2 Proficiency Writing students, I was aiming to show how the answer can be connected on the level of the whole text and be one complete whole. The prompt was written by me too.  An ELT magazine has invited readers to submit reviews of books for teachers. You decide to submit a review of a book that you read recently. Your review should briefly describe the book, explain what impact it had on your professional life, and assess the importance of reading professional literature. ✽✽✽ I am not big on reading books about teaching, guilty as charged, but when this book came out, I bought it on the first day and binge-read it in two hours. “Grammar Nonsense and What To Do about It” by Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley is not a book. It’s a rant, a rant about