Comment by Saline9515
2 days ago
On the contrary, the French "dissertation" exercise requires to articulate reasoning and facts, and come up with a plan for the explanation. It is the same kind of thinking that you are required to produce when writing a scientifically paper.
It is however not taught very well by some teachers, who skirt on explaining how to properly do it, which might be your case.
I'm pretty sure my teachers in the 90s were teaching properly.
I also don't see what's "on the contrary" there.
On the contrary, your OP claims that dissertations require a rehash of the references cited in class. A real dissertation exercises logic and requires mobilizing facts and verbal precision to ground arguments. It is also highly teacher-dependent: if the correction is lax or not properly explained, you won’t understand what the exercise really is or how you are supposed to think in order to succeed.