My students all certainly know the 5 pe, the hamburger paragraph, and all
those other trivial ways that teachers have explained writing. My students
are also mostly savvy enough to understand that all such structures don't
work -- however, I'm continually surprised how often their writing still
falls into that kind of pattern even when it is not effective for their
purpose.
Rob Irish
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie MacKinnon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Composition and Canada
> For what it's worth neither I nor any kids I know have ever seen or done
> a "five-paragraph essay." The only time I've ever heard of such a beast
> has been at writing conferences, where they're sometimes mentioned, as
> one does Lucifer, to keep them / it at bay.
>
> Jamie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CASLL/Inkshed [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Russ
> Hunt
> Sent: October 26, 2005 2:44 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Composition and Canada
>
>
> I'm interested to read that this was the case. When I came to
> this other planet, it seemed to me I had _escaped_ the 5pe and
> the constraints of writing texts.
>
> But of course that was a _long_ time ago.
>
> -- Russ
>
>> I couldn't understand why the five-paragraph essay style was
>> de rigeur, and why curricula which grew out of textbook
>> choices (rather than actual writing practice) held such
>> immense sway.
>>
>> Marc, many of us have trouble understanding the same thing.
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