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 ...

Once the introductory paragraph has sufficiently engaged and set the scene for the reader, the real development happens. Teaching students to really develop their ideas meaningfully is essential to ...

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 ...

The word essay derives from the title of a 1580 collection of writings by the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne. In his Essays, Montaigne set down his thoughts on whatever subject snared his ...

Hi there! You do know that right now digital communication dominates and student writing increasingly reflects social media patterns, don’t you? This is a pertinent reason to pay attention to the ...

Paragraph transition is the movement between paragraphs, specifically how effectively logical order and transitions/transitional devices are used. Arranging ...

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, ...

Business documents -- such as letters, emails, memorandums and reports -- use paragraphs to separate different types of information, arguments and ideas. Paragraphs written in business format are ...

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 ...

You may remember those kids in grade school who struggled to "get it." The concept of paragraphing seemed to elude them, so their words spilled out on paper in a haphazard frenzy. Their work became ...