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Kyle Stedman reads the "The Five-Paragraph Essay is Rhetorically Sound" by Quentin Vieregge. Audio and text of this section are available below.
Chapter keywords: basic writing, current-traditional rhetoric, discursive writing, five-paragraph essay (or theme), prescriptivism
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