Resource Review: Grammar Girl

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Grammar Girl is a blog featuring articles and podcast episodes about the English language, with an emphasis on history and culture. If you are interested in language, grammar rules, grammar myths, history, or culture, keep listening.

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Articles from Grammar Girl

Top Ten Grammar Myths (Mignon Fogarty)

You Have a Responsibility to Write Clearly, and We Have Advice on How to Do It (Mignon Fogarty)

The History and Glory of the Spelling Bee (Mignon Fogarty)

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Hi there. I’m Allison, a communication consultant at Allison Stein Consulting, LLC. Today I want to take a closer look at one of my favorite editing and publishing resources: Grammar Girl.

Grammar Girl is a blog featuring articles and podcast episodes about the English language, with an emphasis on history and culture.

If you are interested in language, grammar rules, grammar myths, history, or culture, keep listening.

Grammar Girl has published content on frequent misconceptions among grammarians, teachers, and everyday practitioners of language; writing effectively and ethically about challenging topics or times; and the national spelling competition, including the history of the bee and the status of spelling bees today.

Let’s talk about some key episodes.

In “Top Ten Grammar Myths,” Mignon Fogarty contextualizes common myths about the English language, giving writers permission to write in the passive voice, conclude their sentences with prepositions, split infinitives, and more.

In “You Have a Responsibility to Write Clearly, and We Have Advice on How to Do It,” Mignon Fogarty interviews Roy Peter Clark about his new book, recent changes to his writing patterns amid the transition to work from home and weaker boundaries between work and family, and the value of writing clearly about topics that readers may find difficult to absorb intellectually, emotionally, or both.

In “The History and Glory of the Spelling Bee,” Mignon Fogarty interviews Paige Kimble about spelling bee history, what encourages spellers to participate in a bee, and the idea of giving each speller a word of similar difficulty within the round.

This resource provides best practices for and fun facts about writing in the English language. Hosted by Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl primarily comprises podcast episodes, including a handful of interviews with guests per topic.

Mignon pitches grammar as friendly, fascinating, and fun. Unlike some grammar guides, Grammar Girl does not address writing rules outside the context of their history and culture. This one strategy a) changes not only the size but the dynamic of the Grammar Girl community and following and b) transforms whether, how, and to what extent many people are willing and able to engage in meaningful thinking or working processes around the English language.

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