Grammar Girl Quick And Dirty Tips For Better Writing

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 198:10:25
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Synopsis

You'll get fun and friendly doses of writing advice in three short chunks: a Quick and Dirty Tip, a meaty middle, and a final tidbit. Grammar Girl covers everything from punctuation and grammar to style and voice. QuickandDirtyTips.com

Episodes

  • 350 GG "Who" Versus "That"

    04/01/2013 Duration: 05min

    Is Your Dog an "It" or a "She"?

  • 349 GG A Word Lover's Highlights of 2012

    28/12/2012 Duration: 08min

    The good, the bad, and the odd.

  • 348 GG How Webster's Screwed Up

    21/12/2012 Duration: 07min

    How an editor who hated the word "radical," became a radical.

  • 347 GG How to Use a Hyphen

    14/12/2012 Duration: 09min

    Learn how to use properly use hyphens with compound adjectives.

  • 346 GG Tuxedo Verbs

    07/12/2012 Duration: 07min

    Use rich verbs, but don't put them in tuxedos.

  • 342 GG Writing for Dyslexic Readers

    09/11/2012 Duration: 06min

    Tricks to make make your writing more accessible to people with dyslexia and visual impairments.

  • 341 GG Google Ngram and "Impact" as a Verb

    02/11/2012 Duration: 06min

    The updated Ngram Viewer gives new insight into word usage.

  • 151 GG Just Say No to Drugs

    12/10/2012 Duration: 02min

    "Dragged" versus "drug." The Grammar Girl print book is now available on Amazon.com! http://tinyurl.com/2pkej7

  • 142 GG When Are Double Words OK?

    28/09/2012 Duration: 05min

    Are "is is" and "had had" acceptable?

  • 334 GG Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past

    31/08/2012 Duration: 07min

    The girl who sat next to me is or was? named Stephanie.

  • 333 GG When Is W a Vowel

    24/08/2012 Duration: 08min

    A E I O U and sometimes Y, but also W?

  • 332 GG How Do You Tell If Something Is True?

    10/08/2012 Duration: 11min

    Debunking a believable grammar hoax.

  • 331 GG "Pet" or "Petted"? Troublesome Past Tenses

    03/08/2012 Duration: 06min

    Some verbs are becoming strangely irregular.

  • 330 GG The Rules of Story

    27/07/2012 Duration: 08min

    Why the Rules of Story Are Even More Immutable than the Rules of Grammar.

  • 329 GG "Versus"

    20/07/2012 Duration: 06min

    Get ready to write about the Olympics.

  • 328 GG "Decimate" and "All Right"

    13/07/2012 Duration: 05min

    Two troublesome words from Grammar Girl's new book.

  • 327 GG "Dilemma" and "Gone Missing"

    06/07/2012 Duration: 04min

    From 101 TROUBLESOME WORDS.

  • 326 GG "Jealousy" Versus "Envy"

    29/06/2012 Duration: 03min

    From 101 TROUBLESOME WORDS.

  • 325 GG So You Think You Can Edit?

    22/06/2012 Duration: 06min

    Tips for editing and revising.

  • 324 GG When Bad Grammar Means Good Fiction

    08/06/2012 Duration: 05min

    Sometimes you gotta break the rules.

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