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Note-taking

Note-taking. Senior Paper. The structure of your Paper. Guided by your Thesis “Fist Fighting in the National Hockey League is essential to the game.” Predicts A llows teams to regulate underhanded plays. Contributes to the intensity of the game.

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Note-taking

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  1. Note-taking Senior Paper

  2. The structure of your Paper • Guided by your Thesis • “Fist Fighting in the National Hockey League is essential to the game.” • Predicts • Allows teams to regulate underhanded plays. • Contributes to the intensity of the game. • Rules will not deter the athlete’s nature to fight.

  3. Narrow Sentences into “Topics” • Allows teams to regulate under-handed plays. • “Regulates” • Contributes to the entertainment of the game. • “Entertainment value” • Rules will not deter the athlete’s nature to fight. • “Natural response to anger”

  4. 1 2 • Alphabetizing problem; adding sources 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

  5. The Note Card • Entertainment value 6 “Just one (1) fact that has significant content dealing with the Subtopic.” Use this if you are going To quote or paraphrase a Third party in the book Or article Ronald Regan

  6. The “Third Party” • 1st --You. The creator of your universe • 2nd --The Author(s)of an article or book • 3rd party some one the author interviewed and quoted within the work Expert 2nd Party Author

  7. Giving Credit to People Interviewedin another’s work = a 3rd party

  8. Nutritional value Subtopic: 5 • Medicinal qualities 2 Contributor: • Nutritional value Subtopic: Subtopic: • Emotion boosts 5 Contributor: Contributor:

  9. Note taking • Source (First item in the MLA Citation) • Use the KEY • A topic • Only one (1) fact per card • A 3rd party contributor • Paraphrase or Directly quote? • As a general rule: Quote Directly… word for word; verbatim! • Use “Quotation Marks.” • Chose when you are drafting the paper if you would like to quote or paraphrase.

  10. Paraphrasing can be Tricky • Don't copy the original author's style or wording. • Even if you have a citation, such borrowing would be considered plagiarism. • Use vocabulary and sentence structures that your reader would recognize as your work. • Think about the information and jot down the source's main points. • Write your paraphrase without looking at the original. • Compare your paraphrase with the original • Have you simply changed a few words to synonyms? • Being handy with a thesaurus is not enough to make the sentence yours. • Make sure to put quotation marks around phrases with exact sequences of words • re-write until the entire paraphrase is your words. • Have you retained the meaning of the original? • Academic honesty requires you to represent other's work accurately in your writing.

  11. What NOT to cite • common knowledge: basic information that can be found in a lot of places and is well-known • historical dates: this is public information that does not need to be cited • a well-known argument or theory: an idea/issue that is commonly discussed or debated • a universal proverb: age old proverbs or sayings, such as "Give credit where credit is due." • Rule of thumb: • If you find the same piece of information three times or more, don’t cite it.

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