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As you get ready to begin your first year of college, there are probably dozens of things you have done to prepare yourself. You’ve most likely shopped for dorm room furnishings, purchased a new laptop for studying and entertainment, taken a tour of the classroom, introduced yourself to your new dorm mate, and more.

Once you walk into your first college class, you are subject to much higher expectations for course work. Your reading assignments will be more frequent and lengthier; your assignments will be more challenging; and the type of college papers you must produce will be more complex and held to a higher standard than is typical for high school students.

There may not really be such a thing as the “perfect paper,” but if you can write one and get an “A,” that is pretty darn close. Most professors do not give “A’s,” unless a paper is truly superior, especially when compared to the others that have been submitted.

Most college students will not choose writing as a career. In fact, most college students dislike writing paper and essay assignments. To them, it is a terrible activity, maybe even worse than getting a root canal.

Constructing a bridge without a blueprint would constitute stupidity, because it would result in a faulty structure that would probably fail.

If you are the recipient of some of these kinds of grades, you know you have to something to fix the issues you have. But you can’t fix those issues unless you first identify them.