“Writing is a learnt skill, not born. Even Benjamin Franklin both critically acclaimed as well as popular had poor writing skills. He worked on it to improve his writing skills.” http://bit.ly/l0YNdC
Don’t you think that “both A as well B” is strange? Is this a mix of “both A and B” and “A as well as B”?
The sentence is a bit strange, but a couple of commas could help to make it a bit clearer (but even then it could have been written better.)
Even BF, both critically acclaimed [,] as well as popular, had poor writing skills.
Even BF, both critically acclaimed and popular, had poor writing skills.
Even BF, who was both critically acclaimed and popular, had poor writing skills.
The irony is the title of the article, “Improve English writing Skills Applying Benjamin Franklin’s Principles.”