If you gather material about your topic before you have completed the supporting points of your outline,you will be wasting your time because you might not use all of the information you find.

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After you gather plenty of raw material through research, your next task will be to sort through the material; you'll use what is most relevant to support your thesis and you'll leave out material that is not strictly relevant.

If You Gather Material About Your Topic Before You Have