The Five-Paragraph Monster, an engaging silly dinosaur that represents a sad truth for many incoming college freshman and high school seniors. We’ve heard and used about the five-paragraph formula, created by teachers in crowded schools to teach a basic understanding of creative writing. The formula revolves having five paragraphs in total, an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Marie Foley, the author of Unteaching the Five-Paragraph essay calls the five-paragraph monster as, “having lots of teach, no bite, and limp and drawn out”(Foley). This is because formula writing does not teach kid show to experience all kinds of writing. Writing is very personalized and each person writes differently, but since teaching writing cannot
