cover letter and summary

Summary:
In John Smith's article "The Importance of Grammar" presents an argument that students should not be taught grammar until late high school or college. Smith uses a lot of very good quotes from other writers discussing grammar in education. But makes the reader ask lots of "why's" with little or no answers. Smith states that to teach grammar is to make better writers, yet wants students to being learning at a late age.

Cover letter:

Dear Smith,
I enjoyed reading your article "The Importance of Grammar". I enjoyed your quotes and your usage of outside sources. But I can not agree with you. Sadly I believe that the way you think students should not learn grammar until late high school or college. I think that we should start teaching grammar to younger students and more often. I also did not like how you made the business world the only possible career path for proper grammar. There are other career fields that need grammar the same way. I liked your ties to Dawkin's in your article, I recently read something of his on grammar and really enjoyed his ideas on grammar making the point of the sentence. Your argument asked a lot of questions and let the reader ask questions, but there is little to no answers to the "Why's" and the "What else's". I think that if you go back through and answer some of the "Why's" your argument will be a little more sound and more people would agree with you. A main reason I do not agree is because I believe that children's minds are like sponges and the older they get the less knowledge they retain, so best get them to soak up as much as possible as young as possible.

Sincerely,
Gina Kirby