[MUSIC] In this lesson, we'll continue with the three step approach to academic reading and look at step three in detail. Once you've worked through step one, and two, and have read and understood the relevant sections of the sources you've found, another challenge lies ahead. Organizing the information you have found according to your topic or research question. In this part of the lesson, we'll look at strategies for organizing your thinking, and organizing the information you need to develop your arguments. To do this, you'll develop categories of information that yo need for your assignment. You'll reread the relevant sections you identified in steps one and two. And categorize the information in the sections. Now step three has four phases. So now let's look at phase one. Before rereading the sources, you need to clarify your thinking around the topic or research question to formulate draft categories of information. These categories will also inform the structure of your assignment. Start by thinking about what kind of information you need to provide to sufficiently meet the aims of your assignment. What kinds of questions do you need to answer? You can also draw upon your list of search terms for this step. Try to identify 4-5 categories of information. For example, if you're writing about the causes and effects of a particular social issue for a group of people, you may need four categories of information. For example, description of the problem, importance of the problem, cause of the problem, and effects of the problem. These categories may change as you read and as you find more information. Now in phase two, we'll prepare to read by creating a table. You use this table to keep track of the information you find, and to help you get an overview of the information you've found in your sources. Along the top row of the table put a column header for each category. Then create a row for each source. In the far left column record the author, year, and key words for each source. In phase three, focus on one source and the relevant section you've identified. Reread the relevant section one by one. As you read, highlight passages that relate to your categories. Add a comment on the PDF to indicate the category these falls in to. In phase four, Copy/Paste the highlighted passages into the relevant cell of the table and note the page number. You can have multiple passages in one cell. When you finished analyzing one source. Repeat steps one to four for each source you found. When you've finished this process for all of your sources, you'll have a table with a collection of all the relevant information for your assignment, along with the information you need to cite these sources appropriately. This table will become an important tool for keeping information organized as you write. You may refer back to the sources as needed or you may be able to simply refer to the table. [MUSIC]