The student should submit the paper a few days in advance of its due date. The writer should, in addition, provide original question posed, the length requirements, and any other information about the assignment that will be useful to the editor, including any specialized terminology with which the teacher or instructor expects the writer to be familiar and to use correctly. The draft should be highly specific in addressing the topic, and should not rely extensively on quoted material. Wherever possible, the student should avoid the passive voice. The paper should have an accurate and specific title.
The paper should have a thesis statement (what it is trying to prove or disapprove), a fluent introduction, three or more paragraphs in the body, and a conclusion that sums up the best points in the argument. Whenever possible, the student-writer should use complex sentences that involve subordination (who, when, that, and because are the common subordinating conjunctions) and avoid simple (subject-verb-object) sentences.