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It's really just about practice, writing in high school is difficult because you are just learning how to really do it correctly. By the time I finished college I could write 3-5 page papers with minimal effort. If I tried to write one today it would probably be extremely difficult since I haven't done it in a while.
Once you understand the formula it gets really easy. Introduction should have 1 sentence about the general topic, 1-2 about your overall thesis/point, 1 sentence for each of 3-5 points you want to make. Each point should get it's own paragraph with 1 sentence to state the point, 1-2 sentences the reference the source material to support it, 1-2 external references if required, and 1 sentence to restate the point you made. The conclusion should have 1 sentence per point you made and 1-2 sentences that restate your overall point of the paper.
Let me shorten that up. This goes for oral presentations as well:
Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em.
Tell 'em.
Tell 'em what you just told 'em.
... and then, hopefully, you can later graduate to not writing/presenting everything in the basic standard writing template originally designed for 6th graders and learn how to use more complex but still effective communication techniques, which can allow you to discover your own unique writing style.
To exemplify this, see the above sentence.
It is a single sentence, and it is not a run on sentence.
It also deviates from the typical rule of never starting a sentence with 'and'.
But, within this context, it works, because it directly following the previous comment.
Oh, beginning the sentence with ellipsis?
That is literally a stylized way of indicating more of a pause than a comma.
Marylin Monroe wrote that way, so did Desmond Tutu, so did Shirley Temple ... I happen to be fond of it as well.