Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.
Take the infamous five-paragraph essay.
Like training wheels, the five-paragraph essay has its place.
I'm not sure that writing a five-paragraph essay is discipline so much as standardization.
Then write a one-paragraph essay suggesting what contribution they might have made to the roundtable.
In addition, write a two-paragraph essay evaluating the Technology section's accessibility based on your chart.
Write a one-paragraph essay that draws opinioned conclusions about the Times coverage and the uses of technology in general.
I'VE been teaching college freshmen to write the five-paragraph essay and its bully of a cousin, the research paper, for years.
What student would not prefer these types of writing to the five-paragraph essay on a novel they don't really understand?
"I was basically kicked out of the writing program for thinking that was more important than writing a five-paragraph essay," she says.
The "five-paragraph essay" (genuflect) was not on my radar during my Eastern prep days (Westtown) or my Eastern college days (Haverford).
