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Back in high school, I was infuriated by teachers who wanted us to outline and plan and then first-draft and revise and so forth when we were writing a paper. It seemed like make-work to me but since my teachers typically required us to provide the diagrams and outlines and rough drafts as evidence that we had actually followed the work procedure that was expected of us, I had to write the paper and then generate potemkin workflow evidence to "prove" that I'd done it the right way.

( I don't have quite the same perspective on this now as I did then. )