Paper gooder

In performing revisions to my papers, I usually change at least 10% of the paper's content and structure. This number may seem small, and that's because it is. I always feel like my papers are very good as-is when I write them the first time, and unfortunately, this hampers the paper, because no paper is good enough in the first draft. On this paper, I will revise probably the whole thing, because I'm probably going to change my claim, if not my definition as well.

Through my revisions, I had realized that both my definition and claim of my term "alive" must be reworked, as they didn't really work and cover all that I had wanted to say. Even now, I have to go back and truly analyze these two, and see if they really explain what it is to be "alive". I also have revised my word choice, as it was originally lacking in its ability to properly convey what I was trying to argue. Hopefully, by Thursday, I will have a masterpiece on my hands or rather, your hands.