Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: Understanding the Five-Paragraph Essay
1. Have We Always Taught the Five-Paragraph Essay? / Nigel A. Caplan
2. Is the Five-Paragraph Essay a Genre? / Christine M. Tardy
3. Does Everyone Write the Five-Paragraph Essay? / Ulla M. Connor and Estela Ene
PART 2: Writing Practices Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay
4. Interactions with and around Texts: Writing in Elementary Schools / Luciana C. de Oliveira and Sharon L. Smith
5. Rethinking the Five-Paragraph Essay as a Scaffold in Secondary School / Christina Ortmeier-Hooper
6. Transferable Principles and Processes in Undergraduate Writing / Dana Ferris and Hogan Hayes
7. Writing in the Interstices: Assisting Novice Undergraduates in Analyzing Authentic Writing Tasks / Ann M. Johns
8. Preparing Students to Write in the Disciplines / Silvia Pessoa and Thomas D. Mitchell
9. Writing for Disciplinary Communities / Christine B. Feak
PART 3: Issues Beyond the Classroom
10. Standardized Testing Pressures and the Temptation of the Five-Paragraph Essay / Deborah Crusan and Todd Ruecker
CONCLUSION: Where Do We Go from Here?
Contributor Bios
Index