'preparing work' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of doing work in advance. For example: "I spent the weekend preparing work for my upcoming meeting."
Two decades on, Doig is preparing work for a small show in Mayfair.
Week 35: Practical session on the publishing process - Tuesday 24 May Michèle will address the practicalities of preparing work for submission to agents and publishers.
I spend weeks preparing work in my studio in Brooklyn, then get involved in all of the logistics of getting them overseas, crating up elaborate projects into boxes and hoping everything makes over there in one piece.
Franklin Headley, a fourth-grade teacher at P. S. 65 in the South Bronx, said the process of preparing work for the boards can teach children a lot about the writing process.
A really good day at work is when the lessons that I spent time preparing work how I imagined them to, the kids enjoy the lesson, and I enjoy teaching it.
He is currently preparing work for a solo show opening this month at Galeria Senda in Barcelona, and for a show in March at the Chelsea gallery Rare, which represents him.
Other companies are preparing works of various vintages.
Conservators made the discovery when they were preparing works for a major Constable show planned for autumn 2014.
Mass and enthalpy balances are most important in preparing working equations for design calculation in developing a novel reactor process.
B.W., S.Z., L.Y. and H.M. helped mouse and embryo preparing works.
Now comes the big one in November ― and we've been preparing, working hard and waiting with anticipation.
