ABSTRACT
Pat Hoy spent 16 of his 28 years in the Army teaching English at his alma mater, West Point. During that time, he created an innovative program in essay writing that focused on teaching freshman how to write the modern essay—not the five-paragraph, thesis-driven, academic argument paper professors were used to—but the kind Orwell, Dillard, E. B. White, and Woolf wrote. At the time, very few programs in the country were teaching this form to students.
