And, like science, art can be learned. So, today I want to share five key characteristics of persuasive blog posts and a simple five-paragraph template for creating your own persuasive blog posts.

“Rigid” and “constraining” are the two words critics often use to describe the format ... to straitjacket. The five-paragraph essay lends itself to persuasive or argumentative writing ...

In his blog The White Rhino: A Chicago Latino English Teacher, Ray Salazar argues that the five-paragraph essay should be tossed ... and useless,” and that the format leads to the production ...