The "hash and re-mash"

I would like to share my wonderful experience with what I would lovingly like to call the "hash and re-mash" of my research essay. As you may have read before, I was stuck. The amount of times I had deleted and rewritten my research paper had become disgusting and I was losing patience and motivation...fast. So I printed out what I had, grabbed my scissors and set up camp in the Driscoll lobby. See, I had done a different dance of the "hash and re-mash" before when I was working on my senior project but this was new. I literally chopped and labeled, wrote and pasted, and my work space expanded wider and wider until I was starting to see an essay, a conversation. I took a break then went back to work later, adding pages of handwritten information. Then I typed up the paper. Without a conclusion, without all the information I still wanted to add, without citations, I had hit the 9 page mark and I was ecstatic. I had learned the importance behind seeing your project as one piece rather than a long thought. I finally have gotten somewhere and learned what I feel was jumping out at me this whole class. I learned I need to always do this with my writing. This is the epiphany I was waiting for in this class and I am now viewing writing in a vastly different way.