Importance of Essay Writing in Education

What is the importance of essay writing itself? How does it benefit students and educators? What connects it with education? Adversely, these are the questions to be answered first before moving on to the assigned topic. Essay, a creative efficacy, slanted in narratives, descriptively, argumentatively, elated definitions and compounded sequence of emotions, thoughts, disputes and facts. Essay compositions are educators themselves. They tell you what your teacher must not say, they make you research facts aside what you know and they propel you to inspiration, confidence and self-knowings. As an essayist you go beyond your boundary, you catapult yourself – infectious exposures. You just cannot help but become intelligent. That self steaming everyday intelligence: you are the student, you are the teacher and you are marker-board.

            Around early June 2015, I was in Abuja the Federal Capital of Nigeria. I was far away from home, pursuing an Austrian Visa I earned writing an essay for ECOWAS Ecow-gen. And yes I got the visa free of charge courtesy UNIDO. Ever since then, I vowed to never give up on my essay writing pursuit – beside I didn’t give up before that ‘big’ recognition. What am I saying? Am saying the same thing Essaymama says: Mama knows what’s best for you. What better gift to man than bestowed creativity to make things happen. To release the creativity depicted when a work is repeated, and change things for the better. Then, you educate other minds in similar ways. Essays feed the innermost contentment of readers. It is a kind of cultural signage; no wonder its prominence in schools and colleges all over the world. With essays you would know language skills better; you will build your confidence in the presence of intellectuals, vs-à-vis prominence within your clique.

            What connects essay writing with education? How do they interact? I have come across and participated in titles as ‘building peace in our hearts and mind’, ‘managing oneself in the digital age’, ‘national values or individual morality’. These titles would boast of intelligent write-ups, and no, it will not end there, practical solutions, innovations, discourses, ideas, education mechanisms and the likes will be its fruition. The little kindergarten child knows how to put/mix the alphabet together so that he will master the use of the language in calculating arithmetic, inventing new science projects, solving puzzles, understanding comprehension passages and writing creative discourses. So, the alphabet will help kids almost in every way in life in the future. This is education, this is essay writing. Its vagueness emits quality emphasis on solutions to varying practical entities. It is that creative and intelligent pieces put together for resonance.

            The importance of essay writing in education are too numerous, dealing with education in all levels and all aspects. It challenges one’s intuition. Like logic, like a pack of cards spread across benchmarks, you just must reason and expand your horizon, and expand your capabilities, as a student, then you excel. It guarantees academic performance. Little wonder continuous writing is a very importance part in school examination and essay writing takes a formidable place in it. Also, essay writing teaches morals. It integrates moral perspectives especially if assigned to students by teachers. They know that the only way to attack that discourse is through positively insightful arguments and so they teach themselves, they learn. Essay writing encourages research. Every now and then students storm libraries reading up various materials to polish and furnish their assignments detailing on essays in its many aspects, they surf the internet, borrow books, and download same on the internet. It’s like a challenge, they know that there are other students doing same thing but they intend to surpass their abilities. Research hold a special place in education and that is where essay come in.

Essay writing enhances reading culture to the detriments of other irrelevant disturbances for students. When students write essays often, it extend the time for reading in their timetable. Furthermore, essay writing helps students to improve their spellings and pronunciation because they get to check the dictionary, reference book and other textbooks once they write or intends to write. It make them cognizance of words well above their scope, giving them better understanding about what is to be taught in schools. Essay writing promotes individual performance; it gives self-assurance about one’s capabilities and ability to excel individually in especially language (English) studies. Moving on, since education entails learning, mental digestion, essay writing serves as a path of self-discovery. You don’t blame the government for not having a good job after college/ university. No matter what you studied, you would want to add a ‘good essayist’, ‘gifted writer’, etc, in your C.V; you would apply for job as a writer as well as any other field you deem fit.

Plus, essay writing makes you a story-teller extraordinaire. Your works become a book, a reference point, the reviewer’s favourite, the winner in competitions, and worthy of recognition. Your school becomes proud of you as well as your family and your country. Every time you sit down in the public to analyze things, fellow students sit down to listen to you like tales by moonlight TV program on Nigerian television where an elderly person say a story to children gathered around him/her and at the end there is always something to learn; this is education. Lastly, notice how essay writing capitulates on a given situation in order to keep the writer in tune with reality. At first there is a beam beckoning to be uncovered, it’s clearly a compounded product of brightness, bringing live feeds to the mind, to the subconscious state of thought, making it reel, making the students’ essays real.

For Essaymama writing contest (submitted 01/10/2015)