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Professors spend more than half of our professional lives responding to student writing.
This page is an attempt to help you write better papers for us, so that our reading, and your grades, are pleasant experiences for us all. This means that you will have to choose works of literature that contain such elements, and deal with them carefully and clearly. These papers cannot be written overnight and probably not even in a weekend. Give thought to the paper in plenty of time to think out the idea, talk to your professor about it, find appropriate reference materials, draft it, polish it, correct it, and submit it in time. Most professors generally use a variation of the Winthrop Rubric for Freshman English as our grading guidelines in the core courses, so be familiar with those.