Students often procrastinate until the night before, write a first draft at 11 PM, and submit it unchanged. But first drafts are just clearing your throat. Skipping revision tanks your essay.
Sabotage number 8: Wait until the deadline and skip the revision. Yikes! I understand why this happens. The essay feels overwhelming, so students avoid it until there's no time left, bang out a draft at 11 PM the night before it's due, and submit the very first version they wrote. First drafts are almost never the real essay. They're the student clearing their throat before they actually start talking.
