I'm holding in my hot little hands the first pile of student drafts of the semester! Before I even look at them, I know what I'll find:
The drafty draft: A paper so full of holes that the argument seems to have leaked out.
The droopy draft: Starts off strong but can't hold up the argument past the first page.
The drowning draft: The argument gasps for breath beneath a sea of not entirely relevant contextual information stretching all the way back to the dawn of time.
The non-draft draft: A thesis statement and a list of points, or just a page full of quotes that could be useful in an analytical essay.
The master of misdirection draft: Tosses pretty colored balls in the air to distract from the fact that it doesn't actually do what the assignment requires.
The changing horses in midstream draft: Lays out a clear road map but then--wait, what was I talking about?
The "Say It with Flowers" draft: Grabs obscure, flowery terms from the thesaurus without regard for whether the selected words are appropriate for the task.
The "Oops, I sent the wrong draft!" draft: Submitted by a student who thinks a professor will believe that he went to the effort to write two versions of the paper, only one of which is plagiarized.
The invisible draft: "I'm sure I submitted it. There must be something wrong with Moodle."
The "Carry on!" draft: Original work, well organized, nicely written, with just a few areas needing improvement.
I wish I had more of the final type, but alas, the odds are against it.
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