Why care is a good question. Why are you taking the course? I am writing my papers because I want to pass the course. I want to pass the course because I want my degree. I want my degree because I want the career that degree affords me. I can look at why I don't want to write papers, and sometime I don't but I remind myself why I am. CBT is an effective method. I would recommend the feeling good handbook (as well as feeling good itself) by David Burns as a way to learn methods. I use them and often they work.