When I start planning to write an essay, I do many things. I annotate the readings, I create organized lists of my ideas, I make an outline and a similarities and differences list. After reading through articles that will be used in my writing, I annotate and usually reread the articles two or three times, or until I understand the writing. In my annotations, I highlight sentences that I could use as quotes in my writing. Once I am done annotating, I start planning my essay. In order to determine my stance, I look at both the prompt and the readings and I think about how the authors argue their points and how I could use the writings in my prompt. I also think about my personal opinion, and how I truly feel about the topic at hand. For this specific prompt, I have decided to “argue” that it is important to use both art and science in nursing. After I determined my stance, I created a similarities and differences list to compare and contrast all of the readings that I read. I created a detailed outline for how I plan on writing and structuring my essay. Now, I will start writing my free draft.

Tentative Thesis:

• Art needs to continue to be used in medicine, and nursing specifically to help understand things, teach others, and be able to see in depth why things happen to our bodies.

Tentative Claim Sentences:

• More now than ever, STEAM programs are being used in schools to encourage the arts.
• One day, I hope to be a pediatric nurse. In the nursing field I believe that it is important to try and incorporate both art and science.
• The hard sciences have been in control of data, research and answering some of the most interesting questions for a while now.