On essays and research papers.

I've always preferred writing research/experimental papers to essays. Why? Research/experimental papers are more structured and always headed in one direction. (eg. Title, participants, method, discussion, results, etc)

You can't really go wrong with that. As for assays, its so open ended. While some may feel its a good thing - it gives you plenty of space to maneuver and options to explore, i don't exactly like it. perhaps not in this context when its graded and every single point you make has to be relevant to the topic.

Okay bitching over. Time to get started.