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 how to compose a simple thesis and defend it in a methodical, easily graded package. It’s literature analysis at its most basic, and most rigid, level.
A typical five-paragraph essay asks students to pick a simple thesis, usually from a list of prompts,
