Writing introductions are about getting to the point. Some of the best advise I recieved about writing intros is that they are like a roadmap that shows where you are going to take your audience. I think this can relate to Gilmore's advice. You don't need generic fluff in the intro.
On the five paragraph essay, I'm not sure that I have been taught specifically to write in that form, But I generally like it as a guideline for essays. I use it more for formulating an outline. Mostly it keeps my ideas separate, but keeping them tied together with the thesis. I never feel like it should be exactly five paragraphs either. One section may be divided into more than one paragraph.
I dont' know how long it took me to learn how to weave quotations into my writing. In a way I continually tried to revise my writing process, but not with the same essay or paper. Rather one essay was a drafft for another essay. Onely I worked on style and problems with my general structure than the content. As I have said before, I hate revising my own work , but I have come along way by learing from past mistakes.
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