Get quick tips to make your writing clearer and more professional from Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl.
Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Quick and dirty tips for better writing
- How to write better lists
- How to write in active voice
- How to write straightforward sentences
- How to write with rhythm and style
- When to delete adverbs
- When to delete prepositions
- Write to a lower grade level
- Format your writing
- Break up run-on sentences
- Use commas like a pro
- Know global quotation mark rules
- Never make an its/it's error again
- State your conclusions
- Beyond spellcheck
- Read aloud
- Grammar Girl resources
- Grammar Girl Q&A with the copy editors
Taught by
Mignon Fogarty
