Students submit drafts to the instructor on the due date. Students revise their papers and submit them to the instructor to be evaluated and graded. One or two significant writing projects must be assigned preferably two, because student work improves significantly in the second paper. Assignments must be in writing and should included criteria for grading. Firm assignment dates must be set by the beginning of the semester.
Drafts are due a week to ten days before the revisions.
The most important feature of the program is that it emphasizes revision . It is the stage where writers discover and clarify what they want to say. Yet revision is often the phase that students neglect when they rush to meet paper deadlines. The papers have already been revised at least once. Faculty find that when reading the papers, they can focus on what the papers say and what students have learned with less distraction from fuzzy claims, weak development, confusing organization, and sloppy grammar.