It's a good, short book held back from being a comprehensive and great one. My only problem with How to Not Write Bad is that a lot of technical terms and ideas of proper and satisfying grammar are left undefined. Yagoda here has written for people who already have studied the subject of writing....
That one word refers to two things. The first is a big-picture deal: about the least quick of all possible fixes. But hear me out for a minute. Almost without exception, good writers read widely and frequently. By osmosis, they learn from the reading an incalculable amount about vocabulary, spell...