<p>They don’t have the time. </p>
<p>That’s really not their job. </p>
<p>One of my favorite profs told me this when he assigned us a paper: “I’m more than happy to develop ideas with you and to help you go over the structure of your paper in an outline form. I will not do a ‘pre-read’ for you. I will not read your whole paper until you turn it in. I’m not your copy editor.”</p>
<p>It also depends on the class. I’m sure an English teacher would be much more willing to help you with grammar, structure, etc than say a psych teacher who is more interested in ideas. </p>
<p>At this stage, you really should be able to do it on your own. You don’t need a prof to go through it step by step with you. Ideas are one thing. They shouldn’t be reading your papers.</p>