<p>Writing instructors usually make it clear that you have to throw out your old ways of writing- mine wouldn’t let us write an introduction or conclusion to our essays until the last one or two. Certainly broke us from the five paragraph essay format common in high school. Re-writing papers depends entirely on the teacher. Some will let you rewrite several times, while others won’t. However, the weighting of each essay also depends on each teacher- they may give you a grade, but that doesn’t mean that every grade will be equal. Usually, that is how you can raise a lower early grade- 10% for the first essay, 50% for the last. The real trick to TO classes is to do the reading and keep up with the work.</p>