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"students find nearly every word in the formula problematic" Essay writing has deteriorated. There's a formula. Learn it. Genius isn't ignoring the rules. Genius is breaking the rules, and knowing it.

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was that in the paragraphs article?

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Yes. But I've seen much better in basic how-to's, like those on college paper writing. These show how to build an essay from the beginning--first sentence, corroborating sentence, challenge sentence, assertion sentence. Now next paragraph...

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When I lived in Manhattan, one afternoon I saw Baryshnikov, Edmund Gorey, and the then-sensible Geraldo Rivera. Not together, of course. :-)

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