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Using a grammar to understand style can be seen, for students, as involving two main tasks: cultivating a Standard of stylistic correctness and converging the language defined by the grammar and the language of stylistically correct designs. This paper discusses a framework for organizing such an experience, considers how it informs the way we write grammars, presents an example (including a grammar), and reports on a classroom experience.
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Li, A.IK. (2004). Styles, Grammars, Authors, and Users. In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition ’04. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2393-4_11
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