I had to go through this exact same process in High School. I almost shot my self. I ended up getting a D- on the paper. The process is so deeply flawed here i

I had to go through this exact same process in High School. I almost shot my self. I ended up getting a D- on the paper. The process is so deeply flawed here is one example. I have my sources, my note cards, and my outline. Each note card had on the front of it a single sentence and on the back of it the source written perfectly according to some standard (I lost many of my points because I would forget a period or comma). Each note card then had to be perfectly ordered (and wrapped with a rubber band and with each paragraph having a paper clip on it) and have the corresponding number written on the back and then circled. If I wanted to change the 2nd sentence in my paper, I would have to completely renumber all the note cards. If I wanted to change a word in my paper I had to cross out the word on the note card with ONE line through it and then rewrite it on the notecard and then change it on the computer. If I wanted to change the structure of my paper, I had to go back and rewrite the outline. I've always considered the outline the "black dot" of a painting. It's hard to start painting on a blank canvas, but as soon as you put a black dot on it you have something to fix, build off of, whatever. The outline puts the first 2 -3 paragraphs on the paper and the rest of the time you ignore it. Retyping this and thinking about it has made me literally feel physically sick.