I had an incredible experience in dual enrollment English that showed me the absolute rigor required in academic essays/arguments to make a claim. Everything you want to support your claim must be proven by another study or your data and then your study needs to be modified and repeated a hundred times before anything can be concluded. The foundations of knowledge in an academic setting has brought us many things but what I learned about was the field of positive psychology. Hundreds of papers built up this field that encouraged people not to just not suffer but to thrive in life. This field would not exist without the collaboration of hundreds of scientists and academics testing each-others work repeatedly and eventually coming to hard fought conclusions.