While the University of Chicago says there is no strict word limit on its supplemental essays, other schools prefer brevity.

The five-paragraph essay, a staple in school writing curricula, has become a source of debate for educators, with critics charging the format is too rigid and constraining.

Will AI kill the five-paragraph essay? To find out, I asked my ninth grade English teacher. The five-paragraph essay is a mainstay of high school writing instruction, designed to teach students ...

Antipathy to the five-paragraph essay ultimately comes down to our encounters with students who have become imprisoned by the method and have lost the ability to write and think creatively (or ...

How the Absurdity of the Five-Paragraph Essay Inspired Rion Amilcar Scott's Novella "When I started drawing up the syllabus, I thought of the way the realities of the classroom imposes a ...

College Essays That Worked: See Examples originally appeared on usnews.com Update 07/14/23: This story was published at an earlier date and has been updated with new information.