The Five Paragraph Essay

The five paragraph essay is useful for more than just producing a piece of writing somebody would actually want to read. It is useful for practising, organizing your own thoughts. I know i've said on the podcast before that i don't really understand what i think about an issue often until i try to write about it. Writing is the process by which i realize which of my intuitions i do think are true and make sense, and which ones are not and i should just abandon its.