title: Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing (Quick & Dirty Tips)
author:  Mignon Fogarty 
description: Are you a fool for mnemonics? If so, you'll fall head over nubucks for Mignon Fogarty--a.k.a. the Grammar Girl--and her handy new audio guide to writing and speaking well. Its chock-full of smart little anecdotes and memory tricks for felling the most common grammatical foes (who can ever remember the difference between "nauseous" and "nauseated" anyway?) and at just an hour long it's the perfect turn-to resource for students and professionals alike. I didn't try too hard to stump Grammar Girl in our Q&amp;A, but with her eagle eyes she spotted my grammatical (typographical?) misstep without missing a beat! <i>--Anne Bartholomew</i><br /><br />
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  Grammar Girl’s™
  
  
  
  
  
  QUICK and DIRTY TIPS™ FOR BETTER WRITING
  
  
  
  
  
  _**Grammar Girl’s™**_
  
  
  **QUICK and DIRTY TIPS™ FOR BETTER**
  
  
  **WRITING**
  
  
  **MIGNON FOGARTY**
  
  
  
  
  
  A Holt Paperback
  
  
  Henry Holt and Company
  
  
  New York
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2008 by Mignon Fogarty, Inc.
  
  
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Fogarty, Mignon.
  
  
  Grammar Girl’s quick and dirty tips for better writing / Mignon Fogarty.
  
  
  —1st Holt pbk. ed.
  
  
  p. cm.
  
  
  Includes bibliographical references a