Why We Need To Write Essays

And more importantly, why they should be fun.

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A thing I’ve become frustrated with in recent years is the increasingly prevailing idea that an essay is a piece of writing produced exclusively within the bounds of academia and/or on the pages of a broadsheet newspaper.

An essay, at its core, is a piece of writing on a subject — typically, it poses an argument or…