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Your writing should demonostrate:
- A clear understanding of your topic.
- An understanding of the main ideas and their relationship to one another.
- A clear presentation of your agreement or disagreement with the topic and your reasons for this opinion. This includes dispelling counterpoints to your argument.
- An awareness of your readers, in most cases, the instructors, unless you make clear that you are writing for another audience.