A 5-paragraph essay is the simplest yet most effective way to work on the academic writing assignment. It does not presuppose much complexity, but allows students to present key information on the ...

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 ...

The five-paragraph essay makes you a more competent human, able to digest, analyze and articulate information with concision and clarity. But fundamentally, I struggled with this. I was a disorganized ...

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” 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 ...

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 ...

The Writing Resource Center (WRC) will hold its first General Campus Workshop series event of the semester, “Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay,” Friday, Sept. 18, from 12:45 to 2 p.m. The workshop will ...

Regular readers are well-familiar with my campaign to move beyond the teaching of the five-paragraph essay. For this reason, I was thrilled to be introduced to a new book, Changing Practices for the ...

John Warner has read enough college student essays to diagnose what's wrong with the way Americans write. After 20 years teaching undergraduate writing courses, including a recent stint at the College ...

The writer lives in Wayne, Neb., where he teaches high school English. A pliers, hammer and screwdriver may not be the most sophisticated tools in a craftsman’s toolbox, but they are some of the most ...

A lot of students lack the general skills required to produce good academic papers or essays. This can be due to a number of reasons, including lack of proper training by your teacher, a general ...