Taking Notes on Research
When you have found a source that gives you information you need, go through it and highlight the sentences you find most important. Make sure you have written the documentation (see the documenting page) for the source on the source itself after you have printed it or copied it. This will ensure that you always have it. When you have highlighted everything, put one piece of information at a time on a notecard. Here are some ideas for doing that: use a traditional notecard, make a power point using each slide as a notecard, write your notes on a piece of paper, but separate them out so that you can clearly see the division between them and have an organization system that keeps them clear to you.
Below you will find examples of how to write notecards and keep them organized. When you write your notecards, paraphrase the cards you intend to paraphrase and put quotation marks around the ones that you will use as direct quotes. Write you parentheticals on the card so you will have it. All of these simple things will save you time and frustration later. If you choose to type your notecards and you already have them either paraphrased or quoted, you can copy and paste them where you need them in your paper ;)
Below you will find examples of how to write notecards and keep them organized. When you write your notecards, paraphrase the cards you intend to paraphrase and put quotation marks around the ones that you will use as direct quotes. Write you parentheticals on the card so you will have it. All of these simple things will save you time and frustration later. If you choose to type your notecards and you already have them either paraphrased or quoted, you can copy and paste them where you need them in your paper ;)
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