In contrast, when I talked this over with my friends from the class, the said that I had already come this far and that I should just stick with one topic for my paper. The more that I thought about it, they were right. If I were to totally change my research this late in the process, I would be so far behind. I decided to stick with the ozone layer and its depletion. I am very thankful for the advice that my peers had given me. After completing that third annotated bibliography, it was time to put all of the information together and make this paper a good piece of work. I sat at my computer for what felt like days at a time. I would type and then erase. The process seemed like a never-ending cycle that I could not get away from. Every time that I thought that I had come up with a good idea to add to my paper, I would think again and erase it. Then it would hit me that I did want to use that in the paper. I began to become very thankful for the undo option that is offered on the computer. During this step of the process, using the MLA format was the hardest part. It is so easy to just sit at the computer and keep on typing, but when you have to keep looking at a reference book, you can get frustrated. I chose to personally use the in text citation that names the author within the phrase. For all of the help that I needed I turner to Diana Hacker, who listed this way of citing as the first in her list (326). I took one weekend away from doing the paper which really came in handy. I was able to clear my mind and then new fresh ideas came into perspective. I was with my cousins who are twenty-seven and twenty nine years old. I was telling them about the paper that I had been stressing over for weeks. In turn, the laughed at me and said that I would not have to be writing my paper on the ozone layer if it were not for them. They were of course joking at the fact that they were in their teens during the 1980’s, wh...
