The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language (Esprios Classics)

Alpheus Sherwin Cody (November 30 1868 - April 4 1959) was an American writer and entrepreneur who developed a long-running home-study course in speaking and writing and a signature series of advertisements asking Do You Make These Mistakes in English? A critic of traditional English education Cody advocated colloquial style and grammar. His course presented in a patented workbook format which he described as self-correcting was purchased by over 150000 students from its inception in 1918. He published essays books and articles virtually nonstop from 1893 through 1950. In a book published in 1895 he gave the advice Write what you know-so go out and know something.