The Essay: Why Your Professors Always Force You to Write Essays You’re suffering five times the brutality of the writing process as you try to work on essays for all five of your classes because all of your professors decided to assign essays all at once. Many sleepless nights of writing and writing and writing later, the torture is over, the burden has been eased; the essays are all turned in. You can finally think now, so your mind falls on this question: What is with my professors and their love for essays?! It does seem that college professors are in love with essays–or at least with assigning them. In this article, we will discuss the art of essay writing; we will look into the history and purpose of essays so that we can figure out exactly what our professors intend when they assign the pain of the essay. The Essay’s Past The term “essay” has been around for over five centuries, as it has its origins in the Renaissance. The word derives from the French word, essayer, which a
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