When we make a cake, we must mix and bake the ingredients before serving it to guests. Otherwise we have flour, sugar, butter, and eggs, not a cake. In a similar way, research must be processed and synthesized before we serve it to a reader.

A Scotch-Tape paper is created when a diligent student has read their research sources, collected relevant and thought-provoking quotations, ordered these quotations in a Word document, and then added transitions. One source is taped to the next and so on. 

For the reader, it can be like a spoonful of flour, then sugar, then butter, and by the time they get to eggs, their appetite has gone off.

To avoid the Scotch-Tape effect, organize your paper around ideas, not quotations. Remember that your quotations should be used in service of your argument. Your paper is not a quotation delivery vehicle.

The best first step is to take notes in full, original sentences. Do not record quotations; record ideas. Then see how those ideas interact with one another. Where do you see contrasts? Where do you see comparisons? Where do emphases differ between writers?