Most subjects have an introductory, important body, and essential end structure. The introduction should cover 2 main topics. Any background information that the reader can understand your article ...

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph ...

The word essay derives from the title of a 1580 collection of writings by the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne. In his Essays, Montaigne set down his thoughts on whatever subject snared his ...

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As a graduate student, I once drew a rather bad cartoon of an old schoolmarm (complete with Gary Larson-style beehive) standing in front of a class saying, “And when you finish your five-paragraph ...

This article is an excerpt adapted from Never Get a 'Real' Job by Scott Gerber (Wiley, 2010). During the earliest stages of starting a business, the last thing you should concern yourself with is ...