One Week Later

So my machine diagram was a tad on the way too detailed side but it wasn't too much of a problem to simplify them because the research that into writing the little details was still applicable to the part in the paper where you talk about the machine diagram in depth. I'm glad Dr. Bogen finally released the format of the research paper because I like having some sort of structure to base my writing off of, especially a mostly objective paper like this. I also changed my machine diagram to a circular diagram after someone pointed out that the mass transferred (the stem cells) were both being extracted from the patient and returned to the patient. I think it makes the machine diagram much more comprehensive and emphasizes the "autologous" part of this procedure that is one of the important aspects of this treatment. Anyway, after the I had a format to follow, the first few parts of my paper were relatively quick and easy; I just had to explain my diagram and make an overview. The hard part was the research and sifting through way too much information to find the useful bits. Now what's left is the discussion part, which is turning out to be fairly difficult because it's hard to organize my thoughts. This is the first major paper I've written in a long, long time that requires me to use writing skills so thoughts translate very slowly to paper.