<span>When conducting research, it is
a good idea to write down your ideas and discoveries. This is so because doing so will make for a
more efficient writing process.
As you research, write down key topics you discover as this will help
you to vet your sources necessary for your paper/topic. As you write
your ideas and discoveries down, your discoveries, naturally, will be summations of the findings within a particular source that you may use when
reviewing your gathered information and save you time by not having to review
all your research a second time. Too, by
writing down your ideas, this will help you narrow down your topic (or even
find a new one) so that you may be able to provide the most targeted/specific
paper possible because the more a paper covers, the more general (and
potentially vague) it tends to be.</span>
It is important to write down your ideas and discoveries when you conduct initial research on a topic because if you don't you will probably forget what you have learned about the topic and need to redo all your research.
