Podcasts like Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing is an educational podcast produced by Mignon Fogarty that was launched in July 2006 and the title of a print book by Fogarty that was released in July 2008. The podcast, which has ranked as high as #2 on iTunes, offers short one-topic English grammar lessons at no charge to subscribers hoping to improve their writing skills.

The podcast is part of the Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network operated by Macmillan Publishers. The print book offers advice similar to that found in the podcast and reached number nine on the New York Times best-seller list for paperback advice books.

The Grammar Girl podcast had been downloaded over seven million times by December 2007. According to a Podtrac survey conducted in October 2006, approximately 50% of listeners are male and the other 50% are female. Listeners are encouraged to submit grammar questions by e-mail and voicemail. The majority of episodes are built around these submissions.