It is time to write this again. The *Five Paragraph Essay* saved my life.

While roundly hated by "true lovers of the written word," as a student who struggled with #LanguageArts, the #5PE let me break the daunting task of 1500 words into a task that could be taken one part at a time; one sentence at a time. It let me use the problem solving skills that made me successful on math and science to tackle academic writing. Most importantly it was good enough to get a C or better whenever I applied it and kept me from failing out of first high school then college. The grades were not stellar but sometimes C is for complete and even D can be for Done with that s**t.

If you are a hater of the 5PE, my challenge for you is to name an alternate tool that a poor writer - esp a poor writer with diagnosed cognitive challenges - a way to break a huge writing task down into bite sized pieces, very small bite sized pieces.

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