A lot of and lots of are considered slightly informal and therefore not quite suited to a university essay. Even more informal are expressions such as "tons of" or "a bunch of", which are definitely to be avoided.
There is nothing wrong with the expression itself: just avoid it in academic contexts and choose many/much, plenty, a large number of (for countables such as people) or a large amount of (for uncountables such as time).
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