Essay Breaking The Five-Paragraph Theme Barrier
Based on my experience of writing, writing a five paragraph essay was the key success of writing the perfect essay. But in the essay “Breaking the Five-Paragraph Theme Barrier” by Thomas Nunnally, we are told that writing a five paragraph essay was to help “ learn the principles of effective composition, principles that can be applied to any writing task, not to master a single format that will answer all their writing needs.” (70-71) In other words, learning to write in this format helped students understand the different elements in an essay such as transition sentences and a thesis statement. These elements could also be applied to other styles of writings too, but most students do not realize that, since they are focused on following the
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The author starts his essay off by saying “what’s wrong with the five paragraph theme? ... Nothing is wrong” (Nunnally, 67) By making this comment, the author is telling his readers that there is nothing wrong with the five paragraph essay but there is more to writing an essay then most students realize which he is about to unfold in his later paragraphs. The author goes on by explaining the purpose of the five paragraph theme which is to provide your reader with a well-organized essay with accurate information and concepts about the topic. He then starts to tell his readers about how he came across the five paragraph essay and how he thought it would improve students SAT scores at the school that he was a part of. There was a moment where his students had remarkable scores but that was until all the sister institutions also discovered the five paragraph essay. His students were not unique anymore since all the schools taught there students to write five paragraphs. The problem with this concept was that these schools were not teaching there students, they were focusing on improving their SAT scores but making grab concepts and ideas and put it into a format. A lot of these students had weak writing abilities and a poor amount of writing
The author starts his essay off by saying “what’s wrong with the five paragraph theme? ... Nothing is wrong” (Nunnally, 67) By making this comment, the author is telling his readers that there is nothing wrong with the five paragraph essay but there is more to writing an essay then most students realize which he is about to unfold in his later paragraphs. The author goes on by explaining the purpose of the five paragraph theme which is to provide your reader with a well-organized essay with accurate information and concepts about the topic. He then starts to tell his readers about how he came across the five paragraph essay and how he thought it would improve students SAT scores at the school that he was a part of. There was a moment where his students had remarkable scores but that was until all the sister institutions also discovered the five paragraph essay. His students were not unique anymore since all the schools taught there students to write five paragraphs. The problem with this concept was that these schools were not teaching there students, they were focusing on improving their SAT scores but making grab concepts and ideas and put it into a format. A lot of these students had weak writing abilities and a poor amount of writing