This is a piece I published in Aeon last year about the persistence of the five-paragraph essay, which has evolved into the five-chapter dissertation and the five-section journal article. Formalism reins supreme. Here's the link to the original. Schools and colleges in the United States are adept at teaching students how to write by the … Continue reading The Five-Paragraph Fetish
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing 