February 21, 2010
Accordions, Frogs, and the 5-Paragraph Theme
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 theme on 'What I Did Last Summer,' write a five-paragraph theme on. ... " The caption underneath read, "Janet Emig in Hell."
My attempt at humor had a small audience: fellow grad students in the rhetoric-and-composition program. To get the joke you have to be familiar with Emig's 1971 book,
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