We assign essays all the time. Although we may identify the type of essay students are writing (informative, argumentative, narrative) and we may tell them what they need to include, I don’t think we talk enough about what an essay is and the important role that each paragraph plays. When thinking about paragraphs, most students focus on how many they need and what can they use to “fill them up.”This resource, a Google Slide Deck (link included), looks at the essay as a collection of paragraph