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When writing a paper I turn on the television, get out a ton of snack food, and listen to Nat King Cole. I usually stare at my computer until about midnight, and then I say to myself “I better get to writing.” I turn off the television, put away the snack food, and change from Nat King Cole to Mozart. The next step is the writing. I write sentence after sentence until a good idea comes out. Then I erase everything else I typed and base my paper off of that one sentence. Another way I write papers is I sometimes have a sentence or an idea already in my mind that I base my whole paper around and other points come out of that. My favorite paper out of all the papers I’ve written is one I wrote on topic of evolution being taught in schools. My position was against the teaching of evolution and I based my entire paper around a point I wanted to make using the first amendment in the constitution. I do most of my research online, but I usually already know what point I want to make and I do the research to back it up. When I’m finished with my paper I edit it by reading it through and fixing my mistakes. Once in a while I’ll revise entire paragraphs because I don’t like the way they were written or formatted.