To convince a jury you have to be clear , you have to have good reasons , and you have to be persuasive . A good paper is one that is capable of convincing a jury. In your generation you have the advantage of computer use, i.e., you don't have to rewrite the whole paper every time you make an improvement. You should use this advantage by improving your presentation paragraph by paragraph, and by remodeling the whole structure whenever that is necessary. Remember that writers rewrite their stories or essays completely before they consider them done.
First drafts are usually clumsy, faulty, and basically useless.