At the last Inkshed conference I talked about some consulting I was doing with
financial services writers. The model they were taught in the firm was a five
paragraph analysis of a particular company. The first paragraph was actually
referred to as "the thesis". While there was some variation in the number of
paragraphs and in the organization of the document, some of these analyses did
match the five paragraph essay structure. Granted, there was considerable
variation away from it depending on who the supervisor/editor was for the
analyst/writer. But it is out there, at least in this one instance.
Roger Graves
Dr. Roger Graves
Director of Writing and Technical & Professional Communication
University of Western Ontario
London, ON N6A 3K7
519.661.2111x85785
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