But she also says the five-paragraph essay falls far short of college writing needs. "Most of the subjects that students are asked to write about are going to involve more paragraphs, and more points ...

But just knowing how to write a five-paragraph essay is not going to be enough for a college student who has to write a longer academic paper. As Professor Bergmann points out, the formula is too ...

While the University of Chicago says there is no strict word limit on its supplemental essays, other schools prefer brevity. For example, Stanford University in California asks students to answer ...

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 is a mainstay of high school writing instruction, designed to teach students how to compose a simple thesis and defend it in a methodical, easily graded package.

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 ...

The five-paragraph essay is a mainstay of high school writing instruction, designed to teach students how to compose a simple thesis and defend it in a methodical, easily graded package.

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 ...

Will D. Desmond, The Five-Paragraph Essay, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 187-192 ...