Writing an Academic Paper...

Writing an academic paper, I noticed that 1000 words are far less than they sound.

Writing an academic paper, I realized how difficult it is to focus on one topic and not get to far from it while writing.

Writing an academic paper, I found out how crucial it is to always write down where you've read what.

Writing an academic paper, I discovered the world wide web to be my enemy, with all it's unreliable sources which would contain sooooo much unreliable information.

This is just a short list of problems I so far had to face so far. However, most difficult for me has been to figure out what exactly my topic is about, and how to structure the paper, so I would not be tempted to run riot. My biggest problem is not that I am not interested in my topic, but the exact opposite: I am way too interested. Reading more and more about it just makes me want to extend my paper endlessly. It is really hard for me to figure out what information to I have to include in my academic paper and what is dispensable. Yet, I have not found the perfect way to get rid of this obstacle. What I did do, is writing a concept like we have to do for our first Proseminar Paper. I already have the headings for all the parts in my paper and i have assigned my sources to these headings. Now I am carefully reading through the sources and writing down important information with all the details about where I found them. The next step, and hopefully the easiest one, will be to sum all this information into nice paragraphs. The last step will be to put all the nice paragraphs together in order to have them form a well structured and perfectly written academic paper.