If your topic is any good, you won’t have hundreds upon hundreds of sources to search through. However, if your topic is any good you will have dozens, and that much is a lot to deal with already. Organizing your sources is very vital to your success.
Keep track of all your sources. You can choose your own way to do this, but choose a way and use it consistently. Take notes on all your sources as well. Keep track of your thoughts, highlight important passages, summarize ideas as you go -- again, you can take notes with any method you like, but pick a method and stick with it, so you can stay organized.
As you read your sources, consider how they relate to each other. Where are they similar? Where are they different? How do the different authors’ ideas and priorities fit together? Consider grouping them by the kind of information they contain or by how they relate to your position. Use these considerations to organize your working bibliography, perhaps.
The more you organize your ideas as you go, the easier things will be when you start writing.
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