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Ben Yagoda's How to Not Write Bad illustrates how we can all write better, more clearly, and for a wider readership.
He offers advice on what he calls "not-writing-badly," which consists of the ability, first, to craft sentences that are correct in terms of spelling, diction (word choice), punctuation, and grammar, and that also display clarity, precision, and grace. Then he focuses on crafting whole paragraphs—with attention to cadence, consistency of tone, sentence transitions, and paragraph length.
In a fun, comprehensive guide, Yagoda lays out the simple steps we can all take to make our writing more effective, more interesting—and just plain better.
- Sales Rank: #619273 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-05
- Released on: 2013-02-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
Praise for Memoir: A History
"Spirited... Yagoda's incisive exploration is a worthy study of a genre that even now cannot completely be defined." -- Los Angeles Times
“Perceptive, thorough, and amusing.”-- New York Magazine
“This idea-driven cultural criticism leads to all kinds of interesting places.” -- Christian Science Monitor
“Ben Yagoda is one of the most subtle—and entertaining—writers about writing one can find. His history of the memoir reads between the lines—and the lies—with illuminating precision.” —Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare Wars
“We owe Ben Yagoda such a huge debt of thanks: his witty, comprehensive, and insightful ‘biography’ of the form reminds us why the memoir matters – and will continue to matter as long as humans think, read, and write. This is literary criticism at its lively best.” —David Friedman, author of A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis and The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
“A shrewd and witty history of memoir sweeps us from Julius Caesar to James Frey. Our guide, Ben Yagoda, is always fine company, with just the right word, kindly good judgment, and another great story coming up on the next page. It's a splendid journey.” —Richard Ben Cramer, author of Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life and How Israel Lost: The Four Questions
"Fascinating… With its mixture of literary criticism, cultural history and just enough trivia, Yagoda’s survey is sure to appeal to scholars and bibliophiles alike.” – Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author
Ben Yagoda is a journalism professor at the University of Delaware. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of ten books, including Memoir: A History, Will Rogers: A Biography, and When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It, and has written for Slate, The New York Times Magazine, and publications that start with every letter of the alphabet except J, K, Q, X, and Z. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife.
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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
An entertaining guide to writing better
By Zachary Goldman
First off, I'm not a journalist or an English professor. I'm just a guy who wants to improve my writing. Ben Yagoda's "How to Not Write Bad" seeks to help people do just that, being a short guide that covers the key points on how to write well. If this sounds dull, it's not; the author throws in hilarious writing samples from his students, and other examples of bad writing that make this book an educational but funny read (perhaps until the reader realizes he or she is guilty of some of these common errors).
Mr. Yagoda covers many examples of bad-writing we're all guilty of, from the more basic:
- "Don't use a long word when there's a shorter one that means the same thing."
- "Avoid word repetition. Do not avoid it by means of 'elegant variation'--the use of a synonym for the express purpose of avoiding word repetition."
- "Never use whomever."
To the more advanced:
- "The trick is, when there's no readily apparent way to avoid repetition, it often works to find a word referring to a broader or narrower category of the first one. So painting/work is okay (broader), as is painting/neo-expressionistic portraits (narrower). But paintings/canvases is elegant variation."
- "Shark cage diving is a compound adjective--that is, a phrase made up of two or more words, that modifies a noun--and compound adjectives before a noun (experience) get hyphenated: 'my shark-cage-diving experience.'"
Some questions you may have always had about writing, but never bothered to ask, are probably also covered: Should you capitalize after a colon? (Only if what follows is a complete sentence, like what I just did.) Do commas and periods go inside or outside of the closing quotation? (Inside if you're American, outside if you're British.) Can you use parentheses inside of parentheses? (Yes, although you need to use brackets [like this] instead.)
In fact, the paragraph I just wrote is based on this tip from the book: "When you ask a question, answer it immediately." If not, "that question just lies there, unanswered, puzzling or bewildering the reader."
The most important piece of advice on how to write better is one word: read. Before going into anything else, Mr. Yagoda dedicates the first of the three main sections to the importance of reading. "Trying to be a not-bad writer without having read your share of others' work," he writes, "is like trying to come up with a new theory in physics without having paid attention to the scientists that came before you, or writing a symphony without having listened to a lot of music." In other words, reading this book alone won't turn you into a professional writer overnight. You need to read, and that doesn't include text messages and status updates. He writes: "How much reading will do the trick? The writer Malcolm Gladwell has popularized the notion that, in order to become an outstanding practitioner in any discipline, you need to devote to it roughly 10,000 hours of practice. I'll accept that in terms of reading."
So this book is hitting two birds with one stone: reading about writing. If your goal is to become a better writer (which should be everyone), you should definitely give this book a try.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Everyone Who Writes (And That's Most of Us) Needs This Book
By W. Terry Whalin
As a journalism professor at the University of Delaware, Ben Yagoda has years of experience of reading student assignments. That experience is sifted and poured into "How Not To Write Bad." This entertaining look at language is informative and everyone who reads it will profit from this book.
As he writes in the introduction, "Words are the building blocks of sentences, and sentences are the building blocks of any piece of writing; consequently, I focus on these basics. As far as I'm concerned, not writing badly consists of the ability, first, to craft sentences that are correct in terms of spelling, diction (that is, word choice), punctuation, and grammar, and that display clarity, precision, and grace. Once that's mastered, there are a few more areas that have to be addressed in crafting a whole paragraph,: cadence, consistency of tone, word repetition, transitions between sentences, paragraph length. And that's all there is to it! (I know, I know. That's plenty.) I've mentioned students but this book isn't just for classroom use. It's for everyone who wants to improve his or her prose." (Page 3)
You will want to keep your yellow highlighter handy as you read this book. I enjoyed Yagoda's pointed look at different aspects of writing such as spelling: "Spell-check programs are great. Spell-check programs are a disaster. Let me explain..." (Page 59) or "The cliché is the poster child of bad writing. And that, my friends, is a cliché. Clichés are bad because they are tired, overdone, unoriginal, dull and mindless. They make you seem like everybody else, not like an individual with an interesting perspective and a voice that deserves to be listened to." (Page 124)
"How Not To Write Bad" is a book that I recommend.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Skip this book and read his other book instead
By Paul Arking
After having read and loved another of his books ("When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It”), I picked up this one with high hopes. Unfortunately, though, this fell far short of those expectations. Whereas the other book was entertaining, humorous, and organized, this one was repetitive, dry, and disorganized. And not only repetition, with things appearing here from his previous book, but even repetition from one chapter to another—the same tips, gripes, and examples sometimes popping up more than once in this book!
Don’t get me wrong: many of the tips in this book are useful (and many of his gripes are ones that I’ve held for a long time, as well). I’m an incessant nitpicker of poor grammar, irritating misspellings, and the misunderstood use of punctuation. But, this seems to have been written more with a mindset of griping about it, than one of laying out guidelines in an organized (and entertaining) manner.
In a nutshell: if you’ve read his other book, don’t bother reading this one. And if you haven’t read his other book, read that one instead and cross this one off your list.
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