How to Write a Sentence (15 page)

About the Author

Stanley Fish is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and a professor of law at Florida International University. He has previously taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He has received many honors and awards, including being named the Chicagoan of the Year for Culture. He is the author of twelve books and is now a weekly online columnist for the
New York Times
. He resides in Andes, NY; New York City; and Delray Beach, Florida; with his wife, Jane Tompkins.

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HOW TO WRITE A SENTENCE.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fish, Stanley Eugene.

   How to write a sentence : and how to read one / by Stanley Fish. — 1st ed.

      
p. cm.

   
ISBN 978-0-06-184054-8

   
1. English language—Sentences. 2. English language—Grammar—Problems, exercises, etc. 3. English language—Rhetoric. I. Title.

   
PE1441.F57 2011

   
808'.042—dc22

2010033166

EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062006851

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