It is the brainstorming phase. In this step, you decide your topic or subject and the purpose of you writing it as well as who your audience will be.
I'm taking it that this is a question that is related to library science? If so, then the information that it should document should be the author of the book that is presented, the title of the work, and who published such work. This is to make convenient tracking or retrieval of the document wished to obtain.
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