Just some background information on my paper so far: My question is, why does America have the 7th highest cancer rate in the world? So far I have written my introduction and started talking about my first source. Reading my paper out loud, I realized that when I write I tend to leave out spoken English and only focus on written English. It is easy for me to separate the two when writing, because it is easy for me to change my mindset once I get into writing mode.

• One thing I thought was brilliant when reading my paper was the amount of information I already knew about cancer. I’m extremely interested in the oncology field, and learning about it over the years with my experiences and some of the classes I have taken, I soaked up a lot of knowledge and really put it to use in my introduction…