Writing a Ten Page Paper by Diana Cox

For one of my class, my teacher assigned a ten page paper to write. Other classes that had the same assignment wrote papers throughout the semester that directly connected to their final paper. Since our class wrote different assignments we did not have background information about our chosen subject for the ten page paper. This made writing a ten page paper very difficult. I had to choose a subject, which I chose how Jerusalem could be considered the holiest place in the world. Then the fun began, I had to start research about Jerusalem. I checked out all the books I could possibly relate to the city of Jerusalem like, books on Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Next I had the pleasure of searching all the books for the certain information I needed to prove my point. I ended up with thirteen sources and about 50 note cards. The next step was to actually write the paper which is always fun. I sorted all my note cards and over a period of a week typed majority of the paper. Basically, I wrote my paper thinking the rough draft was due earlier then it actually was, so I guess I was a little bit ahead of everyone else in the class. Of course, Thanksgiving break gave and the editing process just did not happen. Now I have four days to write a page and a half and to edit ten pages. This is how my lovely experience of writing a ten page paper happened of the course of about a month.