Just as you can practice three - word sentences or sentence… - Stanley Fish

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Just as you can practice three - word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

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Stanley Eugene Fish (born 19 April 1938) is an American literary theorist and legal scholar. He was born and raised in Providence. He is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a professor of law at Florida International University, in Miami, as well as Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the author of 12 books.

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Alternative Names: Stanley Eugene Fish • Stanley E. Fish

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The category of first sentence makes sense only if it is looking forward to the development of thematic concerns it perhaps only dimly foreshadows.

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Before the words slide into their slots, they are just discrete items, pointing everywhere and nowhere.

Just as you can practice three - word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshak… - Stanley Fish

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