# Campfire: Saturday, September 14, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Campfires\ **Created:** [August 26, 2024, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/campfire-saturday-september-14-2024/4308 "2024-08-26T09:57:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![craigconstantine](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.podcaster.community/craigconstantine/32/2322_2.png) [@craigconstantine](https://forum.podcaster.community/u/craigconstantine)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/campfire-saturday-september-14-2024/4308/4 "2024-09-18T14:07:21Z")
This is the topic—about the 5-paragraph essay—that I also mentioned in the call… > [@What's our five-paragraph essay?](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/whats-our-five-paragraph-essay/4339): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.podcaster.community/t/campfire-saturday-september-14-2024/4308)._