Does anyone still use the five paragraph essay?

CBA321
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:19:16 +0000

…?

I really didn’t think it was weird that I still write most of my papers in classic five paragraph essay format. Obviously not research papers and the like… but in class papers for lit or euro I usually stick to intro, three points, concl. because it’s easy, time tested, and pretty much fool proof. Is this weird/really amateur? One of my classmates talked about the five paragraph essay like it was absolutely disgusting and that AP graders loathe it, etc. True/false? This classmate is a bit pretentious so I didn’t really know what to think, but it was a slap in the face hearing that, I must say. Usually my teachers praise my papers. However, am I the only one still swearing by the format we learned in the 5th grade?

Ahhhh!