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Research: Creating Note Cards

Research: Creating Note Cards. How to Take Good Notes and Not Drive Yourself Crazy in the Process. Getting Ready. Have materials handy: Copies of your sources Relevant text (make sure page numbers are clear) Citation information Title page and date of publication from books

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Research: Creating Note Cards

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  1. Research: Creating Note Cards How to Take Good Notes and Not Drive Yourself Crazy in the Process

  2. Getting Ready Have materials handy: • Copies of your sources • Relevant text (make sure page numbers are clear) • Citation information • Title page and date of publication from books • Cover of magazine or top of newspaper • Pre-created citation from databases • Relevant information from web sites • Note cards • Highlighters • Pens/pencils

  3. Citing Books Basic Format for a Work Prepared by an Editor Lastname, Firstname, Ed. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication. Page 18 in MLA Packet

  4. Sample Source Card Source #1 Carlisle, Rodney P., Ed. Handbook to Life in America: Postwar America, 1950 to 1969. New York: Facts on File, 2009. Print. (Carlisle 111) Make sure to write the source number on the top right corner of the card. Each source will have a different number. All note cards from that same source will share that same number.

  5. Sample Note Card: Quote Quote—Information that is take WORD FOR WORD directly from the article. • Use quotation marks • Use quotes rarely

  6. Sample Note Card: Quote SLUG (topic for the card) (source #) “A direct quote is the author’s thoughts in the author’s words.” (Parenthetical Citation)

  7. Sample Note Card: Quote School Spending (1) “Proportionally, states spent far less per student in black schools than in white.” (Carlisle 111)

  8. Sample Note Card: Paraphrase Paraphrase-The author’s ideas put into your OWN original language • a balance between YOUR words and the author’s ideas.

  9. Sample Note Card: Paraphrase SLUG (topic for the card) (source #) • A paraphrase sums up the author’s meaning, but is written in your own words. • Bulleted lists (sentences/fragments) • Only a few closely related facts per card (Parenthetical Citation)

  10. Sample Note Card: Paraphrase Jim Crow Laws (1) • Created to allow legal discrimination • Blacks could not vote • Upheld “Separate but equal” • Segregation in public places • (Carlisle 111)

  11. Take Lots of Notes • Repeat the note taking process until you have read all of your research • Locate additional articles and take more notes as needed • Move on to organizing your cards

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