Assignment One - Question Four In Stanley Fish’s essay “Getting Coffee Is Hard to Do”, Fish writes that getting a cup of coffee is a difficult task and you will face a coordination problem. A coordination problem is defined as when the task you have to perform has several components, the time for completion is limited, and your performance is impacted by the progression of the actions you take. Fish’s purpose is to communicate to readers that when you are getting a cup of coffee, you are paying for the opportunity to do the work that should be done by those that receive your money. The essay’s thesis is stated in the third paragraph as an explicit thesis statement, “And these days, you will face a coordination problem if you want to get a
