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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

As the book's subtitle suggests, Warner is no fan of the formulaic five-paragraph essay, with the thesis stated ... Warner said he understands why the format is attractive to many teachers ...

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 ...