4 reasons why smart people can fail to get an A paper

College Essays
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  1. They’re fascinated and concerned with many aspects of a topic, their papers don’t succeed in researching or analyzing a specific thesis.

  2. They write a lot of information that is insightful and accurate, but it may be off topic. For example, when analyzing a writer’s symbolism in the literary work, they might spend too many words on the bio of the author or the history of the topic.

  3. They can dress a weak paper with a robust vocabulary and eloquent writing style, but the logic and arguments of the essay itself might be rudimentary. Many teachers will automatically give an A because of polish but some professors might see through it.

  4. They can put too much weight on their opinions. Sometimes a paper requires a lot of academic evidence. Even if your analysis is brilliant enough to be published in a journal, it oftentimes cannot be the basis of the paper.

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tl;dr they don’t read directions?

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Somewhat.

But it can also be true that intelligent people are so thoughtful and inventive that they sometimes spur out of control with ideas and lack structure in their essays.