<p>You can get all the comments on your ideas you need from having your professor read an outline or by talking them through it. (My introductions/conclusions are always terrible, so refusing to read an outline of the middle would seem extraordinarily perverse.) I’ve gotten away with literally summarizing a paper out loud at about 3/4 of its final length to a faculty member. He didn’t mind because I was talking and synthesizing, vs. “here is my writing read it and talk about it;” he could respond in a conversation. I don’t necessarily agree that that’s a sensible distinction for a faculty member to draw, but “I don’t read drafts” is an obstacle easily circumnavigable.</p>