{"id":525,"date":"2018-03-02T22:38:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T22:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=525"},"modified":"2018-07-12T18:29:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T18:29:16","slug":"you-cannot-live-on-hamburger-alone-moving-beyond-the-five-paragraph-essay-form","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/you-cannot-live-on-hamburger-alone-moving-beyond-the-five-paragraph-essay-form\/","title":{"raw":"You Cannot Live on Hamburger Alone: Moving Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay Form","rendered":"You Cannot Live on Hamburger Alone: Moving Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay Form"},"content":{"raw":"The major limitation the five-paragraph essay format is that it puts form before content. That presupposition creates \u00a0problems at the university level: the limiting of ideas, the illusion of purposeful structure, and general repetitiveness. You may know this form it by its other name: <strong>the hamburger model.<\/strong> A quick examination of a \u201chamburger\u201d outline for an essay on Charles Justice\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/chapter-1-reading-and-activity\/\">The Ultimate Communications App<\/a>,\u201d will reveal many of the limitations inherent in the five-paragraph essay, especially as it relates to the conclusion:\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1570\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<img src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/03\/cheeseburger-34315_1280-300x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" class=\"wp-image-1570 size-medium\" \/> From Pixabay.[\/caption]","rendered":"<p>The major limitation the five-paragraph essay format is that it puts form before content. That presupposition creates \u00a0problems at the university level: the limiting of ideas, the illusion of purposeful structure, and general repetitiveness. You may know this form it by its other name: <strong>the hamburger model.<\/strong> A quick examination of a \u201chamburger\u201d outline for an essay on Charles Justice\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/chapter\/chapter-1-reading-and-activity\/\">The Ultimate Communications App<\/a>,\u201d will reveal many of the limitations inherent in the five-paragraph essay, especially as it relates to the conclusion:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1570\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/03\/cheeseburger-34315_1280-300x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" class=\"wp-image-1570 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/03\/cheeseburger-34315_1280-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/03\/cheeseburger-34315_1280-768x724.png 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/03\/cheeseburger-34315_1280-1024x966.png 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/03\/cheeseburger-34315_1280-65x61.png 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/03\/cheeseburger-34315_1280-225x212.png 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/03\/cheeseburger-34315_1280-350x330.png 350w, https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/03\/cheeseburger-34315_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Pixabay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-525","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":191,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/525\/revisions\/1921"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/191"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/525\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/writehere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}