Research - Separate useful from useless in sources

When you do research, you want to find truth about a certain topic. The most important is therefore that you separate truth from lies, sense from nonsense, useful from useless.

1. The first thing you want to do is to select sources that are useful. Although this is what you should start with, it often happens that later on in your project you stumble on new and interesting sources, or that you disqualify sources that initially you had evaluated as useful.
2. In the sources that you want to study, make a difference between truth and untruth, reliable and unreliable, useful and useless. Copy and keep what you think is true and useful. Discard what is false. Or, in case you write a critique, you may save what is false as documentation for your commentary.
3. You want to make notes with the snippets that you collected and saved. You can make these notes in many ways, but it's important that you write this down with the snippets as soon as you save them. Your impressions of the moment that you read and researched certain content, are most valuable.
4. While working through the process of re-searching, based on your prayers and investment, you may gradually receive insights and inspirations, or even revelations from higher spiritual sources. Make sure that you write these down and that later you recognize them for what they are. See more about this here: Research - Preparative notes: what are these?.