Criteria for essay....

Today we discussed what we thought should be the criteria for being graded on our first essay for this class. I thought maybe we should have talked about this before turning in the first draft. But I guess it was a good idea to have us write a draft, we could see each others' writing styles. After hearing that five-paragraph essays were overdone and not acceptable anymore in an advanced class like this, I thought to myself that I have to re-write my paper. The only time I wrote an essay that was not in a five-paragraph form was actually in my English class during my Junior year of high school. I'm used to writing the whole intro, three-paragraph body, and conclusion type of essay. But I guess this class will help me and others learn how to NOT write five-paragraph essays...that'd be something new.