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Hey there, we are working on effective ways to research your speech topic. Now the last
step was writing down everything you know about your topic. Now what I'm getting ready
to tell you is possibly the most important step here, as far as I'm concerned anyways.
It is essential, in the world that we live in today, with everything that you have to
do, that you use your time efficiently. Okay, so this is real important. You start researching
your topic, you start finding bits of information. Write everything down. I repeat, write everything
down, or print everything off that you even remotely think that you might need. Because
I guarantee you if you don't, when you come back for it later it will be nearly impossible
to find. So you want to write down or print out every bit of information that you find
that might be useful and at that time credit the source. Where did it come from? What magazine?
What book? What website? Because you'll waste a lot of time if you have to come back on
the back end and prepare a bibliography and you don't have a clue where the sources came
from. And you're probably going to have a bibliography for your speech, so go ahead
and write the sources down. Use your time efficiently.