What you think an essay is, was clearly misinformed by some overzealous rubric of the time that has nothing to do with what an essay is, but more the sort they expected.
It’s ok to not give a damn to correct that, it’s your life.
My highest mark for an essay was 4/10
My highest mark for fictional story writing is 19/20.
I went to bed last night watching a 3hr video essay about an analog horror story about parallel universes colliding with reality in a dark forest scenario.
That is to say, an essay was then translated to a video medium as a vehicle to deconstruct a long form fictional writing project in another medium, in a manner that was itself fictional story writing.
In conclusion, you literally have no idea what an essay is, why the fuck would anyone jump to tell you how to write them first?
It’s ok to not give a damn to correct that, it’s your life.
I went to bed last night watching a 3hr video essay about an analog horror story about parallel universes colliding with reality in a dark forest scenario.
That is to say, an essay was then translated to a video medium as a vehicle to deconstruct a long form fictional writing project in another medium, in a manner that was itself fictional story writing.
In conclusion, you literally have no idea what an essay is, why the fuck would anyone jump to tell you how to write them first?