“The book, ‘Rite it Right, is concerned with how the Nigerian media use or misuse the English language. The author looks at the print and broadcast media and finds numerous examples of writing errors. He has set out to analyse these errors, their types, origins and consequences. With a grammarian’s thoroughness and quest for correct usage, the severity of a practised editor, the attention to detail of a fastidious sub-editor and the lucidity of a communication scholar, the author documents and dissects ‘live’ examples of errors, from the word level to the sentence level from the various media. The result of his effort is highly illuminating and quite entertaining”—Alfred Opubor, PhD, Professor of Mass Communication.    

Contents: Introduction: A conspectus of writing Errors/By their names you can right them/Typical sentence errors/Typical word errors/Typical punctuation errors. Section One: Medley of Errors/Be concerned about error quantum/Errors miscellaneous on Waku/Miscellaneous Minor Omissions and Commissions/Errors Miscellaneous/Error Droplets Offend Good Readers/One Sentence, Two or More Errors/One Message, Myriad Errors. Section Two: Sentence Errors/Let There Be Concord/When Modifiers Dangle/Beware of Wrong Relatives/Pronominal Pitfalls/Parallel Reconstruction/Handling Danglers Dexterously/How to Catch A Fragment. Section Three: Word Errors/Media Practitioners? /In the Company of Mumpsimus/A Vice Called Verbosity/Capital Offences/Verbal Asunder/Manifestations of Lexical Remissness/Apprehend that Pseudohomonym/Between and Other Prepositions/Prepositional Pitfalls and Predicaments/Spelling Be! /Running the RED Light. Section Four: Punctuation Errors/Lying Comatose/Parenthetical and Appositive Peccadilloes. Last Word: Strategic Slogan of Writing/Appendix/References/Index.