... expected in formal academic prose.A teacher of writing would do a disservice to academically bound NNSstudents by not preparing them for academic writing assignments, particu-larly ... student writing with regard to the importance of information/discourse organizationand examples (ranks 4. 46 and 4. 34, respectively), grammar, phrasing, andsentence structure (rank 4. 06), ... instructions" (p. 45 2). According to the author, sentence-levelgrammar, use of discourse markers, and clarity of academic text remain "vi-tal" (p. 45 4) in the teaching of academically...