To say that it is hot in Arizona in the summer is meaningless to someone who has never been there. The following sentences make use of relevant examples. The work of great writers, which we often accept as being natural and spontaneous, is more often the result of painstaking rewriting and revision. Ernest Hemingway, for example, is said to have rewritten the final chapter of Farewell to Arms more than forty times, and portions of The Old Man and the Sea were rewritten at least thrity times. . . . Popular novelist Margery Allingham thus described the care she takes with her writing.
Good examples are typical .
Do not use an extraordinary circumstance to prove a point. It would be difficult to convince an intelligent reader that most great writers were drug addicts by citing the fact that Edgar Allen Poe took laudanum and that Thomas DeQuincey was an opium eater. Intelligent readers would recognize that the examples given are simply not typical. Make sure that all examples you use are specific, relevant, and typical. View the following Power Point Presentation which gives an example of the five paragraph essay and provides details about writing an example essay.