Use the matrix to plan your essay (The essay is about the electoral college) Step 1. You must use ten sources from the data bases (ideally the ones you chose for your annotated bibliography). Enter

Use the matrix to plan your essay (The essay is about the electoral college)

Step 1.  You must use ten sources from the data bases (ideally the ones you chose for your annotated bibliography).  Enter the writer and title of the source in the left-hand column of the matrix

Step 2:  Pick three or four main support points you want to use to support the thesis for your Semester Project and enter them across the first line of the matrix.

Step 3:  Use your annotated bibliography to locate information that relates to your support points and enter brief notes in the box that corresponds to the source in the in the left-had column.

Step 4:  note that you have clustered related information in the columns that you will use to write your main support points for your essay.  Your information will be presented in your essay, organized by column, NOT source by source.