
Stanley Fish
Smart People Podcast
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How to Write a First and Last Sentence
A good first sentence is written by an author who knows where the rest of his text or composition is going. So it's important to write first sentences that know all about the sentences that will follow them. A final sentence is a little tricky because there are more goals that you might want to have. The goal of a final sentence could be to sum up what's in fact, raise new questions which you deliberately leave unanswered. Or it could be to go back to an earlier part of the book and now redeem its promise - at the beginning was perhaps vague or un-not filled out.
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