Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading \& Learning Program pdfdrive com

Stage 3: Compile All Your Information
Once again, the layering approach to reading and studying comes in
handy as you do the main part of your research for a paper. The steps
should be quite familiar by now, though some of the techniques must be
adjusted to fit the special needs of different types of research.
Group your index cards according to each library or other location
where the references can be found, and within each of these groups of
cards arrange the sources in order of priority, from most important to
least important. Probably the initial overview and preview you
conducted of certain books or articles that seem least important will
suffice. In that case, just put those cards aside for later use in writing the
paper and listing sources in a bibliography.
In your primary research location—such as your school library—
overview the most important book or article once again and formulate a
slash recall pattern for it if you haven’t done so already. After you
overview this time, fill in additional information on your pattern.
Preview each section or chapter you’ve overviewed, and add to your
recall pattern. Then read the section that you’ve just previewed and add
more information to your recall pattern. While you read, keep the
following two special considerations in mind. First, direct quotations you
want to use in your paper may be copied at this point, with an indication
of the page where they can be found in the text (for later use in
footnoting). Second, if a publication has a great deal of important or
densely presented information—such as a set of statistics or a listing of
items or facts—you may even want to photocopy that page and attach it
to the back of your recall pattern or index card. Postview anything
you’ve read in the book or article that needs clarification.
Follow the procedure just described with the other publications in this
primary research location, moving from the most important to the least
important source. Then repeat this approach to compiling information in
each of the other libraries or research locations that you’ve identified.