I would start with calling the research process for the final paper ‘difficult’. It took a little longer than I’d hoped, but not so much that it affected my writing process so that wasn’t the difficult part. What was hard for me was simply getting through it all. Having to wade through all kinds of sources and shifting my perspectives, stance, and structure of the paper depending on what sources I was going to use felt a bit exhausting. I felt like I would work in multiple sources that fit my topic and yet find a new source which completely changed the tone or the perspective of a section and I would end up scrapping what I planned for the earlier sources in favor of the new one. Then, once I had all these newer sources which felt meaningful and important to my topic, seeing if i could actually string all those together into something cohesive was difficult and a little mentally draining as well. I ended up with what seemed like a completely different plan and direction for my paper between every step of the writing process when I would stumble upon these impactful sources. But, it probably made my paper better than sticking to my intended sources and cherry-picking those which followed the initial track for the paper which I had laid out. So, ultimately, I included the sources which changed my paper because it’s not really much of a research paper if you ignore the actual research you do in favor of your preconceived notions.