5: Bad Ideas About Genres Last updated Save as PDF Page ID 65290 Cheryl E. Ball & Drew M. Loewe ed. West Virginia University via Digital Publishing Institute and West Virginia University Libraries 5.1: Excellent Academic Writing Must be Serious 5.2: Creative Writing is a Unique Category 5.3: Popular Culture is Killing Writing 5.4: Popular Culture is Only Useful as a Text for Criticism 5.5: The Five-Paragraph Essay is Rhetorically Sound 5.6: The Five-Paragraph Essay Transmits Knowledge 5.7: The Five-Paragraph Theme Teaches “Beyond the Test” 5.8: Research Starts with Answers 5.9: Research Starts with a Thesis Statement 5.10: The Traditional Research Paper is Best 5.11: Citing Sources is a Basic Skill Learned Early On 5.12: Plagiarism Deserves to be Punished