Kim Kraner offers this blog to her CAE colleagues:
Have you considered using podcasts? Would you like to improve your writing? Visit the Grammar Girl website to download her award-winning podcast, which features quick and easy grammar how-to tips. Each podcast discusses a specific grammar topic, including such troubling issues as dangling prepositions, comma splices, w
hen to use lay versus lie, and much more. If you don’t have a MP3 player or iPod, don’t despair. Her site also includes full transcripts of every episode.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/
from the site:
About Grammar Girl
"Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. Whether English is your first language or second language, Grammar Girl’s punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Mignon Fogarty is the creator and host of Grammar Girl. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast.
2007 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards2007 Winner Favorite Audio Program – Podcast Peer Awards2006 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Peer Awards
Mignon Fogarty Bio:
Mignon Fogarty is the creator of Grammar Girl and the founder and managing director of Quick and Dirty Tips. A magazine writer, technical writer, and entrepreneur, she has served as a senior editor and producer at a number of health and science web sites. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Washington in Seattle and an M.S. in biology from Stanford University.
Mignon believes that learning is fun, and the vast rules of grammar are wonderful fodder for lifelong study. She strives to be a friendly guide in the writing world. Her arch enemy is the evil Grammar Maven who inspires terror in the untrained and is neither friendly nor helpful."
Have you considered using podcasts? Would you like to improve your writing? Visit the Grammar Girl website to download her award-winning podcast, which features quick and easy grammar how-to tips. Each podcast discusses a specific grammar topic, including such troubling issues as dangling prepositions, comma splices, w
hen to use lay versus lie, and much more. If you don’t have a MP3 player or iPod, don’t despair. Her site also includes full transcripts of every episode.http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/
from the site:
About Grammar Girl
"Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. Whether English is your first language or second language, Grammar Girl’s punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Mignon Fogarty is the creator and host of Grammar Girl. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast.
2007 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards2007 Winner Favorite Audio Program – Podcast Peer Awards2006 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Peer Awards
Mignon Fogarty Bio:
Mignon Fogarty is the creator of Grammar Girl and the founder and managing director of Quick and Dirty Tips. A magazine writer, technical writer, and entrepreneur, she has served as a senior editor and producer at a number of health and science web sites. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Washington in Seattle and an M.S. in biology from Stanford University.
Mignon believes that learning is fun, and the vast rules of grammar are wonderful fodder for lifelong study. She strives to be a friendly guide in the writing world. Her arch enemy is the evil Grammar Maven who inspires terror in the untrained and is neither friendly nor helpful."
After visiting the site, let Kim and all of us know what you think. Post your comments.
