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 how to ...

Has the five-paragraph essay, long a staple in school writing curricula, outlived its usefulness? The venerable writing tool has largely fallen out of favor among influential English/language arts ...

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 five-paragraph essay, long a staple of high school and college teaching, has fallen into some disrepute. Writing instructor John Warner (an Inside Higher Ed blogger), for instance, devotes part of ...

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 ...

This was a written essay done at the beginning of the year. The students were instructed to write a 5 paragraph essay on an accomplisment that they hoped to achieve later in life. We spruced it up ...