It is encouraged or discouraged the usage of "By+ gerunds" in english formal writing?. If it is not encouraged, how you can explain this situations without using it.
Example: by studying arts kids improve their performance in school
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Sign up to join this communityWe presume there is no such inhibition for using BY+GERUND combination. What's to be looked into is that by doing so the sentence doesn't become wordy or heavy.
It doesn't strike any discordant note and is fine.
You can make it passive or write it the other way round.
By reading you are made a half man ... or
A half man is made by reading...