After choosing the research topic, you will gather information. This is not simply listing the sources you intend to use in your paper. Rather, this is a presentation of the material you have gathered from the approved sources to use in your paper. This material consists of the direct quotes, indirect quotes, and other information from each source which you plan to incorporate into your paper. You are still in the research phase as you do this. You are going through scholarly sources to find material that you can incorporate into your paper.
The Information Preparation assignment should contain a large amount of material—probably more than you will ultimately use in your paper.
There are 2 ways to organize the material for the Information Preparation. They are as follows:
1. Following a properly-formatted bibliographic entry for each resource you intend to use, include quotes, paraphrased material, or bits of information from that resource that you believe you will use in your paper. Preface each item with the topic that it can be used to support in your paper.
2. A second way to organize your document for this assignment is by topics you will cover in the paper. Use the points and sub-points which you intend to cover in your paper as headings for this organizational method. For example, if your paper were on Paul's calling, you might be touching on how his background as a Pharisee prepared him to fulfill his new role. Type that as a heading, then underneath that paste the bibliographic entry for the first approved source. Underneath that, paste all the items you have found that you can use in your paper to develop that. Repeat that for each quote or piece of information you found from each source. After you have done that, make a new heading for another point which you will be covering in your paper and
