The Technological Evolution of Filmmaking and its Relation to Quality in Cinema

I read The Technological Evolution of Film Making and its Relation to Quality in Cinema by Ryan A. Piccirillo. When i started to read this essay, i thought to myself, man this is pretty good. It was straight to the point, and it had a good topic that many can relate to because lets be honest, we all love movies. This essay to me was very good,  i noticed very few, if any, grammatical and punctual errors, which i expected because why else would it be published on this website. Then as I read on i found that his supporting paragraphs to his main point did not follow any sort of pattern at all. He just gave you information and put in his commentary and that was it. The author also used quite a bit of resources , it looks like from the same book, but nevertheless he used quotes everywhere. He used them in his commentary, concrete detail, and in some cases, his introductions to new ideas. This opened my eyes because i have only used, if at all, a little bit of quotes from other works and i only used them in my concrete details. Thinking back now I think that I was encouraged to use other people's work but not at the expense of the writing format that I had to use. The fact that we had a particular writing style was easy for me, but it did not challenge me. I would wrote my perfectly formed MLA style essay and get full credit because i stayed on topic and was able to follow the format very easily because i wasn't challenged to think outside the box. Sure it took a little while but i never got great ideas. Ideas like these that you are ables to expand on and continue to write about for what seems like forever. Like I said I was never challenged in writing before. I couldn't tell you how may essays I have written that have really good ideas, but are limited to the format that I was told to write in. Something that this particular essay does that I liked was that it needed no introduction. It started off with its point and never carried on. I was always told the the introduction is the most important part about my essays because it will make the reader "want" to keep reading, but lets be real, who wants to read a 10th graders views on a book that's in traditional format? I believe that being different is a good thing. So why can't we apply that to our essay style? why can't we be different? Here's why. We all want good grades! so we follow this thing that makes all of our essays the same for the grade, not better our writing skills or further our education.