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Subordinating Styles and purposes:
-phrases with similar preposition: connection,completion
-Brevity: unshakable conviction, deliberate wisdom
-parenthetical: delayed progress, reflection
-piling clauses: suspending completion, avoiding final act
-succession of dependent clauses: preliminaries become direct assertions
-rhyming patterns, pairs, interplay between inner and outer, progression: inter-clause effects

"...it behooves us to know what the various styles in our repertoire are for and what they can do." - pg 35

"...the truth is that forms are the engines of creativity...prompting [students]to make moves in their writing they might not otherwise make..."-pg26

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Off to a fantastic start. What a great read!

Fish likes to contradict himself and then point out that he's contradicted himself. Must make him feel smart or something. Not quite condescending, but not humble, either. "Annoying" is the word I'll use. Still, other than that, it's a great read thus far.

The weakest point of this book, so far, is the lack of exercises. The examples are good, but sparse. i.e., the theorizing is solid, the pedagogy is lacking.

What I thought would be a short, quick read has become much more demanding. It requires, no, demands your attention. If you just skim it or let your mind drift off, you'll miss some critical stuff herein. It's like trigonometry for sentences, though a lot more enjoyable.

This is much more heady stuff than I expected, which is a good thing. I like philosophy, and a book on writing that is heavy on philosophy, real, academically rigorous philosophy, well, that's a great thing.

keren banget. bisa belajar nulis kaya' Hemingway

So, Strunk & White isn't the be-all and the end-all? :)