"It's usually not a good use of your time to ask students to write first drafts and try to comment on all of them soon enough for a second draft," I told my nephew, the first-year English teacher, when he was lamenting how much better the essays he was grading would be if they were revised.
"I'm sure my teachers did that," he insisted. "I remember getting drafts back and then having to do a final."
"Did you do the writing in class or for homework?" I asked.
"Oh, it was all for homework," he scoffed, but then his eyebrows raised in understanding. "Which, of course, no one does anymore," he nodded.
"Right," I agreed. "We call it "retakes" now."
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