Rite It Right: ANALYSIS OF WRITING ERRORS IN NIGERIAN MASS MEDIA

“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.