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Mr. Demas Conversations About Writing

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“What format did you use when writing an assignment for your writing classes in college?”, I asked. I was surprised to find that Mr. Demas followed a format that's considered a myth in “Five Myths about Writing” in the book Conversations About Writing. He claims himself to be a “big five paragraph essay guy”; intro, three paragraphs for the body, and conclusion. Even in his more in depth writing that had to be more than five paragraphs, he states, he follows the same format only having a couple of paragraphs explaining each point. “It was basically a three point justification of my thesis”. Mr. Demas also includes outlining has helped a lot and he spends most of his time outlining. “If I can get a good outline done, the paper just wrote itself

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