by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
After many years, I finally learn what a five-paragraph essay is<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Every now and then I learn something that embarrasses me. It is something that I feel like I should have learned a long time ago. Such is the case with the title of this post. I was stumbling around the Internet and bumped into a post about the good old, standard, five-paragraph essay. I didn’t know what that was.<\/p>\n I did some looking and found examples and tutorials here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>. Wow, this is pretty good stuff. How is it that I never heard of this?<\/p>\n Well, I stopped taking English in High School in 10th grade. At the time, you needed three years of English to graduate. I had English in 9th and 10th grades and in 9th grade I took Journalism, which counted as a year of English. So, no English in 11th and 12th grade. Maybe they covered the 5-paragraph essay in those years. College? I scored high on the ACT test, so I passed over the first semester English class and only took the second semester. That was a writing class, but we never did the 5-paragraph essay.<\/p>\n I’ve written four or five books – back in the day when publishers printed paper books and tried to sell them in the book stores. I’ve written a hundred or so articles for magazines and journals (see the long list here<\/a>). I’ve even written a few dozen short stories (see and buy them on Smashwords<\/a>).<\/p>\n And now I have learned how to write a 5-paragraph essay. In retrospect, I could have used those techniques to write this blog post. Let’s see, if you don’t count the summary, this post has five paragraphs. Maybe next time I’ll use those techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips After many years, I finally learn what a five-paragraph essay is. Every now and then I learn something that embarrasses me. It is something that I feel like I should have learned a long time ago. Such is the case with the title of this post. I was stumbling around the Internet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}