Teaching the five paragraph essay is a dilemma. One one hand, it is useful because it teaches students structure and organization, but on the other, it is too formulaic and in the real world writers do not even write this way. Imagine Malcolm Gladwell trying to write one of his famous writing pieces in a five paragraph essay. It just wouldn't work. So, as teachers, we do it because the states force us to teach it for standardized tests, but really, are we preparing our students to write well or are we just creating monotonous writers?
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