Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph ...

Uh oh, it's that slightly queasy feeling one gets just before embarking on an uncertain voyage. Yes, it's that dreaded five-paragraph argument known as the essay, the staple of English classes in high ...

Dry. Proscriptive. Wordy. Jargony. Boring. Many words have been used to describe scientific writing, very few of which would excite a reader to take a closer look into the contents of a paper. With ...