Make it lean and to the point. Truth is simple. Your reader can usually distinguish pepper corns from mouse droppings. Keep fertilizer to a minimum. Grab the bull by the horns, butt heads with issues.
Writers kid themselves more often than they fool their readers.
Be simple, direct, detailed. Fifty minutes is short, thirty minutes is twenty minutes shorter. So you must select in advance what you judge worthy of our time. In preparing for the essay you must interpret all that stuff. No, not exactly.