I love research papers as much as the next person but....

In high school I hated writing research papers. I’m not the biggest fan of writing in the first place, but when we had to write research papers I couldn’t be less enthusiastic. I never liked the fact that we had to spend so much time on a paper that I would just write a few days before it was due. Sometimes I would procrastinate to the point where I was hastily writing a paper the night before it was due. After reading Ballenger’s introduction I have a little bit of a different outlook on the terror known as the research paper. Back in high school when the time came to write research papers people were never happy. We all dreaded it a lot. Our teachers would try to make things a little easier on us by letting us choose the topic that we wanted to write on. But that didn’t help much. Sometimes we would have a choice between three different topics. Those three topics all had to do with the novel that we had just finished reading. Once, we were able to choose any topic that we wanted to. Regardless of the topic, no one was into writing the paper. None of us any had real connection with the topic, much like Ballenger said on page 8. However there were the few kids who could get themselves into writing the topic, but not many. But after reading Ballenger’s writings I find myself taking up a different belief. Now I feel that this might not be that bad. Sure, I won’t get super excited for a research paper, but I won’t completely dread it. The only thing that I’m a little unsure about in a research paper was the amount of facts that should be in it. I was under the impression that it should be almost completely facts. So my question is the more facts we have the better, or not?