My Favorite Podcast

There are tons of podcasts out there these days. There are all different topics, from TV shows to politics, the environment to grammar. My favorite one is Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.

I attended public school when I was growing up, everyone had to take an English class every year. We would read poems, stories, books, write papers, and learn some vocabulary, but we never spent a lot of time focusing on grammar. I was very unprepared grammar wise for college. Luckily, I had a good English teacher who spent a majority of our time in class on grammar and improving our writing skills. My writing did improve a lot just from that class, but it still had a ways to go, and it still does - that is why I like Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. It helps me when I'm stuck grammatically when I'm writing, and it teaches me things I never knew, or I thought I knew but really didn't.

The creator of Grammar Girl is Mignon Fogarty. She is also the founder and managing director of Quick and Dirty Tips. Along with hosting Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips, Fogarty is a magazine writer, technical writer, entrepreneur, has served as a senior editor and producer for many health and science websites. She graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a B.A. in English, and she graduated from Stanford University with a M.S. in biology.

The Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing podcast provides you with quick and simple tips to help you improve your writing. The podcast covers all types of grammar rules and questions, even difficult ones that many people struggle with. Fogarty uses memory tricks in the podcast to help you remember the grammar tips and so it is easier to refer to them while writing. The topics range from punctuation like the one titled Apostrophe Catastrophe, style like the one called Chicago Style, tenses like the one titled Saddam Hanged, which focuses on the past tense of "hang," "hung" or "hanged," and many more.

In addition, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing has won awards. In 2006, it won the Best Education Podcast - Podcast Peer Awards. In 2007, it won Best Education Podcast - Podcast Awards and Favorite Audio Program - Podcast Peer Awards.

I think this is a great podcast to help you review or learn grammar tips. It will help you improve your writing and answer some of those burning grammar questions that you have.

Even though Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing is my favorite podcast, I'm sure I am constantly making grammatical errors, even in this article, but I know that if I continue listening to this podcast it will help my writing, even if it is only a little bit at a time. It is definitely a great podcast to download!

Check out http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ for more information.