Will AI kill the five-paragraph essay? To find out, I asked my ninth grade English teacher. The five-paragraph essay is a mainstay of high school writing instruction, designed to teach students how to ...

As a young student, the five-paragraph essay was the bane of my existence. I had been taught to write clearly and without flair — to state a thesis and to develop it concisely. The five-paragraph ...

A common teaching tool among English teachers is the five-paragraph essay because it helps students write about any given topic. It’s been the building block of composition classes for decades, and ...

These days a certain literary formula is straitjacketing our children’s writing: the five-paragraph essay. Most English teachers require that students use this dull, rigid model in compositions about ...

MARIETTA, Ga., March 7, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- It's finally happened! Author/Illustrator Johnnie W. Lewis publicly releases her method of "getting through" to students who need help writing paragraphs ...

The word essay derives from the title of a 1580 collection of writings by the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne. In his Essays, Montaigne set down his thoughts on whatever subject snared his ...

In his blog The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher, Ray Salazar argues that the five-paragraph essay should be tossed out the window. The Chicago public school teacher writes that the ...

The latter half of Rion Amilcar Scott's outstanding new collection, The World Doesn't Require You, is the brilliant novella "Special Topics in Loneliness Studies," about a college professor at the ...

A three paragraph essay calls for the writer to condense information. This format requires one to argue with few strong point and other supporting facts unlike in a five paragraph essay where you can ...

The teacher, Eli Carbullido, shared his students’ real feelings about writing a single paragraph on TikTok. He filmed a video with two separate parts. “In a paragraph…” he said in the first, beginning ...