Reading must take at least a month, and the reading process includes creating reading cards .. reading cards are 3x5 inch cards .. these will be of great help if the student knew how to use them ( unfortunately i worked without them) but believe me they facilitate your work .. what can you do by these cards? these cards help you to take notes on your readings .. whenever found something interesting .. jot it down there .. but do not write everything .. write only the head lines and the page number in which you found the informations ... of course at the top of each reading card write the title of the book, the name of the author, the page numbers in which you found interesting infos , write also how profound the infos you found there are
this .. will help you better .. cause you will be organized not like I was ... papers everywhere .. and I am lost cause I could not find , remember where i read this or that ..
there is another type of cards you have to make : bibliography cards .. those are made for bibliography ... they contain the infos you need to write a bibliography ... a bibliography as you may have noticed contains the refrences from which you collected infos .. it must be correct and systematic that is well organized ... the bibliography cards contain : the title of the book or the title of the article/magazine/ journal , the name of the author (his complete name) , the year of publication of the book/journal/ article ,the place of publication , sometimes the publisher/ editor , the edition number ( i mean first , second, third, etc)
these cards help you better proceed so always make ones whenever found a source of information about your topic/theme.
as your readings go deeper and deeper you will gain a great understanding of the topic so you will be able to start writing the preliminary table of c.ontents ... this table of co.tents tells you readers what you are going to deal with in your topic .. it looks like all tables of c.ontents .. major titles , subtitles, etc
the table of C.ontents maintains the topic outline style that is either
A ...............
1-.............
2-..............
B ..................
or
1. ..................
1.1...............
1.2...............
2 ....................
as your readings develop, your table of *******s will develop too ... you will always drop, add, improve titles