Essay About My Favourite Teacher
When I first started teaching 16 years ago, I was told that I had to teach the five paragraph essay format because it was part of the curriculum at my school. I didn't think it was particularly useful and had some other ideas, but I was smart enough to see that this format was really being pushed at my school and that it would be politically unwise for me to speak out against it. Instead of pointing out its flaws, I marveled at its sparkling as my superiors held it up to the light as a key tool in a successful teacher's repertoire.
Now, the buzz is that the five paragraph essay is "out", and my superiors at school (none of whom were around in the old days) have begun to repeat the buzz they, too, have been hearing about how awful the five paragraph essay is. I can see that it is most advantageous for me politically to join in their chorus, and so I have. Down with the five paragraph essay!
Until the flow shifts again, anyway.
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Essay About My Teacher My Hero Tagalog
Five paragraph essays are the starting point for every college paper students will ever write. If they can't follow this simple recipe they're doomed. Many college papers are informational or analytical, but not necessarily argumentative. To analyze, organize points, integrate sources, and report objectively are the real challenges they need to learn for formal academic writing. But rhetorical mode is irrelevant to this necessary structural process of writing. If you're teaching creative writing, fiction or non-fiction, then that's another story. Short, choppy fragmented one or two sentence paragraphs are great for the creative writer/reader. Composition 101 is not about creative writing though. Most college students are not in Comp 101 to write fiction or news articles, and most people in general aren't doing that type of writing in school or the workplace.
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I am horrified when high school English teachers tell me they unteach five paragraph essays, which kids often learn in middle school. I am disturbed because the students arrive to my college English course with no sense of structure or organization and I have to reteach all of these basic skills. Maybe this philosophy is one of the reasons why so many students arrive to college with deficient writing skills.
