Actually I find it quite different from high-school essays. In the "5 paragraph essay" you have 3 ideas, in the middle, and you summarize them in the intro and

Actually I find it quite different from high-school essays. In the "5 paragraph essay" you have 3 ideas, in the middle, and you summarize them in the intro and re-summarize in the conclusion. This advocates the journalism focus of getting your big idea out early, and expanding if needed. Most high school essays wouldn't teach you much reading just the title + abstract (first paragraph).