the funny part is how obvious this is to so many professors.  one semeser I had a professor who understood how much i had to work to pay for school, then commute over an hour to get to class, and he knew most of my work was all-nighters, but he loved my ideas so much that my faulty, raw writing just killed him.  So, for my final, he gave me an extra week extension, without my asking, just to see what my work would look like if I took the time to process, digest, and edit.  I poured so much into that damn paper to earn what he thought I deserved, and the end result was one of the only perfect paper scores he gave that semester.