Work a liberal amount of deep conditioner into your hair section by section, pulling apart your curls and coating each strand. The longer and thicker your hair and the tighter your curls, the more conditioner you will need. Tuck it up under a shower cap and hop in the shower, washing your body first. Once you've kept the cap on for about 10 minutes, remove it and wash your hair as usual. Applying conditioner before showering and covering it under a shower cap will give your hair an extra boost of hydration as the steam from the shower locks in the moisture from the conditioner. You can also substitute deep conditioner for coconut oil, which is an effective moisturizer for curly strands. Take off the shower cap and apply either a sulfate-free shampoo or, if your hair needs extra moisture, a cleansing conditioner. Massage it into your scalp and the crown of your head, then rinse. If you're using a cleansing conditioner, let it soak in for a couple of minutes before rinsing. Then, rinse it out with cold water to seal your hair's cuticle and add shine. Sulfates are cleaning agents found in most traditional shampoos, but they can cause curls to go frizzy and dry. Using a sulfate-free shampoo will keep your curls bouncy and smooth. You can make your own cleansing conditioner by mixing a small amount of shampoo with a lot of conditioner. Use this mixture instead of shampoo for extra frizz-banishing strength. Shampoo is meant to remove oil from hair, but if your hair is already very dry, you might not need to use any. Using a homemade cleansing conditioner instead will clean your hair without stripping its natural oils. After washing your hair with shampoo or cleansing conditioner, pour a coin-sized amount of deep conditioner into your palm and scrunch it thoroughly through your hair, working from about halfway down to the tips. Leave it in for a couple of minutes, then rinse lightly. Try to leave some residual conditioner in your hair to give your strands an extra boost. Choose a deep conditioner that's formulated for curly hair. If your hair is feeling really dry, soak it with moisture by "co-washing," or washing with just conditioner and no shampoo or cleansing conditioner. Simply get your hair wet and apply conditioner as usual. Grab a wide-toothed comb and work through knots while you still have conditioner in your hair. The conditioner will help the comb slip through your strands without snagging or causing breakage. This makes the process easier, and won't cause frizz like combing after the shower will. Start detangling at the tips of your hair and work up to the roots. For the least frizz, apply your styling products before you fully dry your hair. Wring out excess water, then run the product through your hair with your fingers from roots to ends. Scrunch up towards your scalp to encourage your curls. If you have soft, loose curls, use a curl-defining spray. For medium to big curls, use a thick, defining gel. If you have tight curls, go for a more dense cream. When you're done conditioning, rinse your hair with cool water and blot it dry with a microfiber towel or an old T-shirt. The smoother material will help settle your curls more than a regular towel and leave just enough moisture behind to prevent frizz. If your hair is still dripping wet, tip your head upside down, place the towel or T-shirt over it, and twist gently. Place the hair bundle on top of your head to dry. Curly hair typically doesn't need to be washed everyday, especially since frequent shampooing can dry it and stretch out the natural bounciness. If you have thicker hair, aim to wash every 3 days; for thinner curls, try every other day. Everyone's hair is different, so pay attention to how yours responds when you don't wash it. Notice how long it takes to get oily and plan to wash it around that time. You can still give your hair a rinse on an off day if it's feeling dirty. Simply wet it in the shower and apply conditioner, let it soak for a few minutes, then rinse with cool water. You can also try a dry shampoo that's formulated for curly hair to keep your strands smooth and frizz-free without getting them wet.
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One-sentence summary -- Apply a deep conditioner just before you get in the shower. Use a sulfate-free shampoo or a cleansing conditioner for extra moisture. Apply a deep conditioner to your hair from mid-length to tip. Comb your hair in the shower before drying. Use a styling product on damp hair to keep frizz at bay. Wring out your hair with a towel to dry it. Wash your hair every 2-3 days.

That means just going out and researching. If you spend time creating a close outline of your presentation paper, you're most likely wasting that time, as the research you gather might not fit neatly into every slot. Instead, start with your school's library (or the local public library). Spend time collecting stacks of books and skimming them for valuable information until you've exhausted those resources. Keep an open notebook or a portable device with a notepad on hand, and copy down everything you might use verbatim. It's generally considered more convincing to source one item from three different authors who all agree on it than it is to rely too heavily on one book. Go for quantity at least as much as quality. Be sure to check citations, endnotes, and bibliographies to get more potential sources (and see whether or not all your authors are just quoting the same, older author). Writing down your sources and any other relevant details (such as context) around your pieces of information right now will save you lots of trouble in the future. Once you have good information from your local resources, use whatever tools you have access to gather more from online databases such as JSTOR. If you're a college student, chances are you've got free access to many of these resources through your school; if not, you might have to pay to subscribe to some of them. This is also the time to do general online research, at sites with reputable information such as government agencies or respected nonprofit organizations. Use many different queries to get the database results you want. If one phrasing or a particular set of words doesn't yield useful results, try rephrasing it or using synonymous terms. Online academic databases tend to be dumber than the sum of their parts, so you'll have to use tangentially related terms and inventive language to get all the results you want. By now, you should have more information written down (and properly sourced) than you can possibly use in one paper. This is the time to get creative and really breathe life into your project. Visit museums and historical societies for records that can't be reviewed anywhere else. Speak to respected professors for academic information you can use as a primary source; call and speak to leaders and professionals in fields related to your topic. If it's sensible, consider heading out into the field and speaking to ordinary people for their opinions. This isn't always appropriate (or welcomed) in a research project, but in some cases, it can provide you with some excellent perspective for your research. Review cultural artifacts as well. In many areas of study, there's useful information on attitudes, hopes, and/or concerns of people in a particular time and place contained within the art, music, and writing they produced. One has only to look at the woodblock prints of the later German Expressionists, for example, to understand that they lived in a world they felt was often dark, grotesque, and hopeless. Song lyrics and poetry can likewise express strong popular attitudes. By this point, you should have a lot of research on hand, well-cataloged and at least somewhat sorted. Review all of it through the lens of your research question, looking for answers or partial answers to it. Read between the lines, as well use context, source age, and other background information to inform your quest for understanding. With any luck, you should have more than enough to suggest and support one answer over the others. Go through all your sources one more time and set aside any that won't be directly useful to your project. From here, all that's left is to put your information into a sensible format, apply your own interpretation to it, and prepare it for presentation.
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Start with the basics. Move outward. Gather unusual sources. Review and trim.