You didn't get the title right! :(
Look:
while I explain that I want a short, keyword-like essay and then hand in 13 A4 pages of gibberish
Wait, I thought you're teaching chemistry and not some weird social science BS :P
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well, ain't nobody got time for that is so widely used now that I didn't want to use it anymore. But I thought about it, true enough. ;-)
And well, students are students. Some manage to describe a simple experiment including its results and the discussion on 2 pages, others seem to fear they'd miss something important and get bad grades if they don't expand it to a third of a bachelor thesis.
Of course, the opposite is happening. The more I have to read, the angrier I get and the less I am willful to overlook small errors that are inevitable on 13 pages of text.