I strongly agree with the book and article about keeping the readers in mind when writing a paper. That’s why I try not to sound repetitive in my paper. For this reason, I found it very difficult with the literature review section of my paper last semester. My topic is about mood disorders (bipolar and depression) among Japanese artists, musicians, and writers (poets included). The rationale of my paper is the failure to find any previous studies that examined this population. The literature review is not suppose to be a summary so I tried to include only the main points. However, the lecturer thought it was too short. I have a hard time finding a balance with synthesizing articles. Also, the articles shared similar limitations so how am I suppose to discuss the same things in 6 pages? The readers will get bored reading my paper. I don’t know how I score on that writing test we took on the first day of class. I mean, I love to write but I find this kind of writing to be such a constraining, painful process.