Campfire: Saturday, September 14, 2024

[craigconstantine]

This is the topic—about the 5-paragraph essay—that I also mentioned in the call…

What's our five-paragraph essay?

The article I’m linking to below is about AI — wait don’t run away. It made me actually think about: What is the purpose of the five-paragraph essay? How does one write such a thing—what exactly am I doing when I go through the soul-sucking process of doing it? So you don’t have to read the short, linked article… but I recommend it. The five-paragraph essay is a mainstay of high school writing instruction, designed to teach students how to compose a simple thesis and defend it in a methodical…