In his blog The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher, Ray Salazar argues that the five-paragraph essay should be tossed out the window. The Chicago public school teacher writes that the ...

Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Nov., 2003), pp. 136-176 (41 pages) The five-paragraph theme, while widely used by writing instructors, has often been criticized for its tendency ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

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Students do close reading and analysis of these texts, underlining the central information, circling the clue words, and crossing out distractor sentences. They summarize the paragraphs, both orally ...