摘要:All of us have had the frustrating experience of reading "finaldrafts" of student papers that are filled with underdeveloped ideas,unclear sentences, unnecessary words, and punctuation errors. Ifwe ask these students how they went about making their papers, inmost cases we find that they did not revise and edit. Many studentsdo not leave time to even read their papers before passing them in.This practice is generally interpreted by experienced writers asprocrastination. I have found, however, talking with students whovisit the Reading/Writing Center, that, in fact, the reason theyleave no time for rewriting is not procrastination, but lack ofexperience. They either do not know how to revise and edit, orthey think adult writers do not need to. They are being logicalwhen they leave no time for activities they do not know how to door think they are grown up enough to skip