2007-01-25 03:19:36 · 6 answers · asked by Zebedeesnose 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You write essays to show that you are capable of your own thought on a subject and that you can critically analyze it.
It's not high school where you need to know what year something happened, or how something works and explain it in 10 lines.
You are training to become independent thinkers and only expressing your ideas in coherent words and ideas that other people can follow and understand will prove you can do this.
Academic papers after all are what you use to research your own essays and develop your own ideas. If people didn't write essays in the first place, you'd have no books to learn from!
If you continue on to lecture and become a full-time academic, you are quite literally the eggheads and researchers who find new ways of doing things and advance the human race. Be this through new ways of controlling the economy, running government, treating diseases or new schools of thought.
You need to be able to show that you can do more than just fill in the right word in the right place to someone's question in an exam paper. You are training to be the ones who come up with the questions!
2007-01-25 03:38:08 · answer #1 · answered by Adam L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although I'm not quite sure why this is in the Philosophy section, I would like to think that essays are a large part of critical thinking skills. If you can prove your point through deductive reasoning, an essay should be no problem, and therefore, viewed as a significant portion of one's qualifications. If you have the ability to use words that aren't used in our everyday speech, then one who critiques these essays (namely a teacher, I suppose, but I guess a dean/principal/faculty could be critiquing as well) will see this person stand out from the rest. Essays can prove how much you learned about a subject, and how much you already know. For example, if I tell you to write a five-page essay on the noble platypi, could you do it? Maybe the average person can squeeze out a page or two from memory alone, and a lot of that would be opinion based upon the facts that we understand, but if you can manage to bullsh!t your way through five pages, the critic will see that as something special that stands out from the rest of the papers. I hope this helped you in some way, and let's try to keep the questions regarding education under the section with that name. Thank you.
2007-01-25 03:29:56 · answer #2 · answered by johnmfsample 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-16 02:18:17 · answer #3 · answered by weatherford 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically, it's to prove you have an in depth knowledge of the subject and depending on the subject it also proves your reasoning, research and writing abilities.
It also proves that you can follow a sheet with guidelines on it that more or less tells you what you should be including. Sometimes I found all you had to do was make a complete sentence out of a bullet point and that was enough for a decent grade!?
2007-01-25 03:46:48 · answer #4 · answered by randombushmonkey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the best way to show your quality and completeness of thought.
2007-01-25 03:27:09 · answer #5 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so that other can plagiarise them
2007-01-27 12:06:58 · answer #6 · answered by jane m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋