Carolina QuotesKnow what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.
Stanley Fish Connected to the Carolinas
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Chapter 3, It's Not The Thought That Counts, p. 33
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- How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)
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- 2011
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- p. 33
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