Essays

  There are three words a teacher can say to strike fear into the hearts of their students, test, project and essay. Out of those three things the majority of students find essay to be the scariest of all.

  Workwise it’s true, an essay takes up the most time and the most effort, and it is one of the hardest parts of school.  Just hearing the word stresses a lot of students out but that’s because they just think about all the writing it involves and all the rules the have to follow and how the essay usually counts for a decent amount of their final mark. Really when you look at it in a more positive way, essays aren’t so bad. When teachers explain essays and what they involve, they always make it more complicated than it needs to be and makes it seem like the most important thing in the world. Truth is, all an essay is, is a form of story written in your own opinion, expressing and argument or idea that you believe in. That’s what teenagers do on a regular basis, argue their ideas until people believe them; the only hard part about an essay is that you have to put that same argument in writing instead of just yelling it at your parents or teachers.

  Personally I enjoy writing and expressing my thoughts through writing, but I do understand how hard it can be at times to put all the ideas together and making everything flow. I agree that essays are annoying to write because there are so many rules to follow, words to use and format to have; and it is a lot easier to just give up on it. Even people who like writing find essays a pain and become lazy when forced to write one. It’s not a fun thing to do and takes more effort than it’s really worth in the long run. I know that most of the student population would agree and everyone would come up with different arguments for why they truly dislike essays. Now if only we could all take those arguments and some time to write them down and make an essay.

  Honestly an essay could be an easy thing if we just put in some effort. The problem is nobody wants to do that, especially not a teenager, so they just become an annoying thing that is necessary for school. For those reasons that is how a teacher just has to say the word essay to their class and it’ll send them into a full panic.