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Writing essays is supposed to demonstrate mastery of a subject while also giving the student a deeper understanding of the subject.
What it actually teaches most students is how to write essays, and it usually teaches them to write bad essays.
How to express a thought in as many words as possible.
It’s often harder to do it in less words. In my ethics course we had to summarize each chapter on a single page.
It’s hard to cram a good summary into one page.
