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2018
Volume 107, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

Thomas Nunnally equates five-paragraph format essays with square cucumbers found at farmer’s markets: they have an established structure but no argument. The real square cucumbers are students who need a formula to write competently.

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