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So, my hopes for great reading and inspirational material were realized. From Stenhouse Publishing, I purchased two books, Thinking Through Genre  and Beyond the Five Paragraph Essay . From the title, the second book may be misleading as it seemed to imply, to me, that it explored the depth and use of the five-paragraph essay format. Personally, my professional opinion of the five-paragraph essay is that it is belittling, nonsensical, and useless. According to the summary of this book, the authors seem to agree, but they put it in a much more professional way than I just did. As such, they then explore other methods of writing and how to teach writing. While I have not even read beyond the back cover, I trust that this will be an excellent resource.  I have, however, read through much of Thinking Through Genre , by Heather Lattimer, enough so that it has driven my passion for facilitating education even further. It inspired me to shamelessly adopt many of the tools and techniq...

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