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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

An essay is a piece of non-fiction writing with a clear structure: an introduction, paragraphs with evidence and a conclusion. Writing an essay is an important skill in English and allows you to show ...

A common teaching tool among English teachers is the five-paragraph essay because it helps students write about any given topic. It’s been the building block of composition classes for decades, and ...

Find information and guidance on writing critically, structuring your essay and paragraphs and using the correct academic tone, style and vocabulary. An essay has a generic structure of four parts- an ...

You know the feeling. You open a blank document, reread the assignment for the fifth time, and somehow an hour disappears ...

There is no single 'right' way to approach a critical essay but the following pointers will give you guidance. identify the author and text use words from the task indicate the topics/aspects that the ...