Research - Preparative notes: what are these?

Whenever you do research and you read in documents or sources, or you listen to audio or view movies, you'll gradually deepen your understanding of a topic. When you do this in the right way, taking your time to pray and think, then gradually you'll discover deeper truth.

Such inspirations or revelations can be written down as Preparative Notes (PPN). Sometimes you find such PPN in your source materials. Sometimes you discover them yourself.

They can take many forms. For example, you may suddenly realize how two facts relate to each other, or you may come to an insight about a person.

It is good advice to write PPN down in such a way or on such a place that you'll later recognize them as PPN, being different from other notes and snippets.

PPN may eventually become the skeleton around which you build your article or essay.