Olin does think, however, that the five-paragraph essay format is useful for elementary students, adding that fourth grade is when the state of Texas starts assessing students’ writing in standardized ...

“Rigid” and “constraining” are the two words critics often use to describe the format. There’s no denying that a five-paragraph essay—comprising an introduction with a thesis, three ...

The worst offense of the five-paragraph essay is its ignorance of the fact that good writing must also be interesting. Professional writers shirk the format in favor of a looser and more creative ...

Let’s just go ahead and kill the 5-paragraph essay at all levels, everywhere. Seriously. Let’s end it. We can have essays that happen to be 5-paragraphs long, but there shall be no more “5-paragraph ...

Most English teachers begin by asking students to produce a peculiar beast known as the “five-paragraph essay.” It consists of an introduction; body paragraph; body paragraph; body paragraph; and ...

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 ...