I think a lot of it may well go back to the basics of writing instruction in k-12 education (full disclosure--former middle school special education teacher here, and my Master's Degree project focused on remedial writing. This was my specialty as I worked with students who had learning disabilities). Paragraph construction at that level is very sketchy, and to keep student focus from wandering the concept of the five sentence paragraph was heavily emphasized. It has a purpose, but too many k-12 teachers are themselves intimidated by writing to move beyond that particular structure. I know I found it frustrating at times because I could see creative reasons for the bad example paragraphs...but trying to bring that up to students at that level would have been confusing.
I don't know. Perhaps I picked up my awareness of sentence-level and paragraph-level pacing from reading John Steinbeck's journals when he was writing The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. Steinbeck was an early formative influence on me as a writer, and he would be a logical source for that sort of analysis.
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Date: 2020-08-25 07:29 pm (UTC)I don't know. Perhaps I picked up my awareness of sentence-level and paragraph-level pacing from reading John Steinbeck's journals when he was writing The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. Steinbeck was an early formative influence on me as a writer, and he would be a logical source for that sort of analysis.