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I remember in school they at some point decided that literally every class must require students write a 5 paragraph essay every quarter. And those 5 paragraphs must be:
Absolutely no other line breaks were permitted regardless of existing grammatical/stylistic rules you may be breaking in the process and you must have exactly 5 paragraphs with exactly those contents, no more, no less.
Since literally every writing assignment was now a 5 paragraph essay, including both big English assignments where they wanted a couple thousand words, and the simple little one day assignments where they just wanted half a page, they all had to be exactly 5 paragraphs. I honestly entirely forgot how to properly paragraph my writing. It was fun, in the way that it was infinitely frustrating. Now whenever I see a 5 paragraph essay format I get emu war flashbacks to school and cringe so hard