Ben Yagoda
Auteur van When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse
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Ben Yagoda is a journalism professor in the English Department at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Memoir: A History; Will Rogers: A Biography; When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It; The Sound on the Page; The Art of Fact; and About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made; and a toon meer coauthor of All in a Lifetime: An Autobiography about Dr. Ruth Westheimer. He has written for Slate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times Book Review, Stop Smiling, and other publications. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two daughters. toon minder
Werken van Ben Yagoda
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse (2007) 298 exemplaren
How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them (2013) 116 exemplaren
The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song (2015) 78 exemplaren
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The B-Side 2 exemplaren
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- Yagoda, Ben
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- 1954-02-22
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- journalist
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- University of Delaware
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When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of… door Ben Yagoda
An interesting examination of parts of speech - not just adjective, as the title says. My favorites sections are about adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions. The book is full of anecdotes and real-world examples. At times, Yagoda sounds pedantic and certain chapters, especially, pronouns and prepositions are boring. Those monolithic paragraphs (oxymoron) didn't help the cause.
Made me distrustful of memoir as history, and made me want to read more memoir as literature.
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