The purpose of writing an essay is to teach students how to think. Being able to prompt is a subset of being able to think. If you only teach them to prompt you

The purpose of writing an essay is to teach students how to think. Being able to prompt is a subset of being able to think. If you only teach them to prompt you have taken away any edge they might have had. Its like those schools that think that getting more ipads will make the kids smarter.