What is important in an essay? Reliance on sources, monographs, articles, textbooks, lectures (listed in order of importance). Before making a link to an electronic resource on the Internet, make sure that the site (the author of the article) to which you want to refer is really authoritative, belongs to a well-known university or scientific school. Analysis of concepts, approaches, methods and research results. Demonstration of understanding the complexity of the problem. Logic of reflection. Reasonableness of the author's position. Emotional neutrality. The quality of an essay is determined by several factors: the quality of the source material you intend to use, the reasoning applied (how accurately it relates to the problems raised in your essay), the quality of processing of the available source material (its organization and arguments).