Mignon Fogarty can’t remember whether it had been a misused semicolon, a chronic case of comma splicing, or an ‘affect’ when an ‘impact’ was needed, but sooner or later she had seen one mangled word too many. Identified to counter the slipping standards of good writing in daily discourse, Mignon created a every week podcast called Sentence structure Girl’s Quick and Dirty Techniques for Better Composing to attain all offenders-from the intimidated to the apathetic. In less than a year, more than five million Sentence structure Girl podcast shows have already been downloaded, and Mignon offers made an appearance in the webpages of THE BRAND NEW York Moments and dispensed sentence structure tips on Oprah. In Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips to TIDY UP Your Writing, Mignon tackles a few of the most common mistakes people make while communicating. From ‘place vs. rest’ and ‘have an effect on vs. effect’ to split infinitives and run-on phrases, Grammar Girl offers apparent explanations and effective memory tricks to help listeners compose (and state) it correct.