Question on essay writng/learning prrocess

[soccerboi]

After you have written your essays and have them read by teacher/s, what do you guys do?
I just read over their comments and then put it away, rereading the essay and their corrections once in a while.
Do you think it's worth rewriting that essay, trying to improve it? or is this time better spent writing a different essay?

[Yendall]

I read the comments and ask my teacher to explain areas that need improving. Basically all my teacher corrects on my essays are expression errors; the content is fine at this stage of the year. It's good to get that feedback.
I wouldn't rewrite the same essay, given it's not really negative feedback. I would attempt new questions/prompts and try to improve on previous errors in previous essays.
Saying that, if the initial essay got very negative feedback, maybe re-writing it would be a good idea.

[Water]

You don't want to rewrite it again unless it was atrociously bad. Take the comments to heart, work on the the new piece taking note of the mistake you did before. Firstly, you'll most likely be apathetic to rewrite, and it's the same topic so it might get a bit dry and boring.

Unless it's some piece that you are trying to memorize to heart, well rewrite. But if it's just practice essay, then no, you don't necessarily have to

[charmanderp]

Take any criticisms and pieces of advice and apply them to the next essay that you write, rather than rewriting the initial one.

For example, my practice piece for context was, according to my teacher, not focused enough on the prompt. That was the only thing I then had in mind when writing my essay for the SAC and my mark was higher than what I'd received for the practice essay, despite, in my opinion, it probably not being as 'high quality'.

[VivaTequila]

I am similar to you.

The essays that I was forced to write by my teacher, I simply handed up, got marked, and put them away. If I was getting marks I wanted, then I wasted no effort to improve because other subjects needed more attention. If I wasn't getting marks I wanted, I disregarded the feedback they provided in written form (there's only so much you can understand and interpret correctly) and hunted them down for 1-on-1 sessions to learn how to write the essays properly/grasp whatever concept I didn't understand.

English can't be self taught. You pretty much need guidance from your teachers. You can't just go and google the answer to the problem; you need to be shown proper composition and how to respond to these pieces.