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Completing Note Cards

Learn how to effectively take notes using note cards with these guidelines. Includes tips on formatting, key phrases, source referencing, and types of notes.

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Completing Note Cards

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  1. Completing Note Cards

  2. If you take good notes, you will have a record of information when drafting your report. • Follow these guidelines in preparing note cards: • (1) Use a 4” x 6” index card or a half-sheet of paper for each item of information. (Consider color-coding off of source cards) • (2) Write a key word or phrase in the upper left-hand corner.

  3. (3) Place the source title – note card number in the upper right-hand corner. (The Great Gatsby-1 would indicate first note card from source The Great Gatsby) • (4) Place the page number(s) of the source information in the lower right-hand corner. For electronic sources, you may write the page number if available in a print or PDF version. Otherwise, write paragraph number using para as the abbreviation for paragraph followed by the number of the paragraph (para 4).

  4. Key word or phrase Note Card # (source title-note card #) Martin Luther’s Speech Elements of Literature-1 Motivated people from all over the United States to stand up for other people’s rights. p. 119 Notes: Summarized, Paraphrased, or Direct Quote Page or Para number

  5. Types of Notes • As you take notes, you will summarize, paraphrase, or directly quote directly from the source material. Look at how the information is taken from the paragraph that follows…

  6. I have a dream, too – that the literary merits of Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech will be thoroughly appreciated in every speech class in the nation. It is, quite frankly, one of the finest examples of rhetoric in this century. The speech positively rings with genuine sincerity, conviction, and purpose. King’s use of repetition to stir the audience and his use of biblical allusions are masterful. The speech was given on August 28, 1963, before a quarter of a million people in Washington, D.C. It moved people then, and it continues to move us today (Elements of Literature 206). Book/Website/Entry title Page number

  7. Directly quote only when it isimportant to know the author’sexact words. Copy the source material wordfor word, including punctuationmarks Elements of Literature-1 King’s Speech “I have a dream, too – that the literary merits of Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream” speech will be thoroughly appreciated in every speech class in the nation.” p. 206

  8. Paraphrase when you need toremember the detailed information. Elements of Literature-2 Merits of King’s Speech Restate the material using your ownwords and sentence structure. Begin by identifying the writerwhose words you’re paraphrasing. James Wisdom claims that the “I Have a Dream Speech” by Martin Luther King Jr., is one of the century’s best examples of Rhetoric. King uses repetition and biblical allusions well and is sincere and purposeful. King made the speech August 28, 1963, in Washington D.C., in front of a quarter of million people. p. 206

  9. Summarize when you need toremember only the main idea. About King’s Speech Elements of Literature-3 Read the material first and write the note in your own words. The “I Have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered August 28, 1963, in Washington D.C., before a quarter of a million people, is one of this century’s best examples of rhetoric. p. 206

  10. IMPORTANT NOTE!! • Remember, these note cards will turn into your parenthetical citations (aka: quoted material, evidence, concrete detail, statistics, facts, text-based material, direct quotes, paraphrased information, summarized information—it’s all the same; you didn’t write it, so you need to cite it!) • Therefore, do them correctly NOW! Or, suffer consequences later…plagiarism accusations, lower grade, loss of points, etc. • DO YOU GET HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS YET?

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