Have no fear, Grammar Girl is here! I was first introduced to Grammar Girl several years ago in one of my college english classes. Her podcasts are witty and full of spunk, making them easy to listen to and you get a quick memorable english lesson. I hate to be the bad guy here, but Grammar Girl's secret identity and the host of QuickandDirtytips.com is Mignon Fogarty, an experienced "grammar guru". Podcasts are delivered frequently on a variety of topics in the categories of word choice, punctuation, grammar, and style.
In addition to listening to the podcasts, followers are also able to read the podcast in text from. The websites offers a few different ways to follow Grammar Girl, including RSS podcast or article, iTunes, or newsletter format. However, when I tried to subscribe via RSS, I got an error message, which was frustrating. While I was trolling the website looking for another RSS link, I found directions to add Grammar Girl to your blog widgets. Visitors to your blog can listen to the most recent blog or a few previous ones. Again, the follow via RSS option is included on the widget, but the connection does not work.
Grammar Girl is only a segment on the website Quickanddirtytips.com. The site offers podcasts from 18 different experts that give advice and information including the Sales Guy, Diet Diva, Mighty Mommy, and House Call Doctor. While the skills Grammar Girl discusses are geared toward an older crowd, highschool or maybe middleschool aged students might enjoy listening to these segments as well. Teachers and parents might also find experts like Math Dude, Tech Talker, or The Public Speaker helpful as an alternative to ordinary lectures. Aside from RSS technical problems I had with the site, it was a pretty good resource with a variety of helpful segments. I enjoyed alot that the site had to offer, hopefully some of you will too.
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