"This is my point. The Rule of Five spells out issues that need to be addressed in any piece of analytical writing: argument, frame, evidence, analysis, conclusion. If you don't address these issues, then you are not doing an effective job of presenting your work. But by addressing them only in this order, and confining each function of the argument to a hermetically sealed location within the paper, you turn a useful set of guidelines into an iron cage. It's dysfunctional–to say nothing of off-putting, infantilising and intellectually arid. But, then again, it makes life easier for all concerned. So it's not going away soon."
David Labaree at Aeon decries the five-part essay.
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