Effective cover letters and news articles don’t follow the five-paragraph structure, he argues, so the organizational pattern will not lead to success outside of school.

5. Instruction in which students are given examples to analyze various approaches to writing introductory and concluding paragraphs, as well as direct teaching of cultural conventions, assists ...

Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Nov., 2003), pp. 136-176 (41 pages) The five-paragraph theme, while widely used by writing instructors, has often been criticized for its tendency ...

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