Research Skills: Source Cards and Note Cards

1. Research Skills: Source Cards and Note Cards

2. Making Source CardsIndex cards to record bibliographic information about each source of information • Number each source card to correlate with your note cards. • See handouts "Working Bibliography and Works Cited" and "Making Source Cards" for more detailed directions. Example from NY Times article Hoffman, Jan. "A Girl’s Nude Photo, and Altered Lives." The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 26 Mar. 2011. Web. 30 Mar. 2011. <http://www.nytimes.com/>. 1

3. Making Note CardsIndex cards used to record information about specific topics related to your research subject • Number each note card to correspond to its source. • Write one of your research suptopic headings at the top of each card. • Write only one main point or idea on each card. • Only write information directly related to your statement of purpose. • Write only essential words; abbreviate and use bullet points when possible. • Be accurate; double check facts, statistics, adn quotations. • Enclose direct quotations in quotation marks and include the speaker's name, if not the author of the work. • Use brackets [ ] to add your own words to a quotation or ellipsis (...) to leave words out of a quotation. •  Write the page number for a print source, and "np" for no page for electronic sources. • If you cannot fit all the notes on one side of a card, write "over" and continue on the back, or start a new card and new heading and number it "2." • Take notes in a variety of methods: summary, paraphrases, and quotations.

4. Three methods for taking notes • Summary—concise notes and information put in own words; contains only main points and ideas; much shorter than original source. • Paraphrase—notes in own words that retells information in more detail than a summary. Bullet points, phrases, lists, etc. helpful in paraphrasing. • Quotation—word for word notes from original source; enclose in quotation marks. Use sparingly.

5. Summary-shorter than original, put in own words Original text:  In the fall of 2009, Margarite, a petite, pretty girl with dark hair and a tiny diamond stud in her nose, was living with her father, and her life was becoming troubled. Her relationship with her father’s new wife was tense. Her grades were in a free fall. Her social life was deteriorating. A good friendship with a girl had soured, abetted by a fight over a boy. This girl would be the one who would later brand Margarite’s photo and forward it. In the shifting power dynamics of middle school girls, the former friend understood well that she who sneers first sneers best. The flick of a cutting remark, swiftly followed by “Just kidding!” The eye roll. As the animosity between the two girls escalated, Margarite felt shunned by an entire group of girls and was eating lunch by herself. At home she retreated to her bedroom, alone with her cellphone and computer. Her mother would later speculate that Margarite desperately needed to feel noticed and special. That December, just before the holidays she took the photo of herself and sent it to Isaiah, a low-key, likable athlete she had recently gotten to know. Causes--Margarite's story                                                       1 Margarite's mother guessed her daughter's unhappiness and loneliness caused her to send the sext to Isiah, a boy she liked who was paying attention to her.  Margarite's parents were divorced and she lived with her father but did not get along with her stepmother. At school, her grades were slipping. Socially, she was not doing well either.  She lost one of her good friends (the girl who forwarded the picture to others), partly because of a fight over a boy.  This girl also turned others against Margarite and she was eating lunch all alone at school.  She spent her free time home alone with her phone and computer.   np

6. ParaphraseNotes in own words, roughly the same length as the original. Original Text: An Internet poll conducted for The Associated Press and MTV by Knowledge Networks in September 2009 indicated that 24 percent of 14- to 17-year-olds had been involved in “some type of naked sexting,” either by cellphone or on the Internet. A December 2009 telephone poll from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that 5 percent of 14- to 17-year-olds had sent naked or nearly naked photos or video by cellphone, and that 18 percent had received them. Boys and girls send photos in roughly the same proportion, the Pew survey found. Statistics            1                                                                    • 24% of 14-17-year-olds have participated in nude photo sexting by cellphone or online (source: AP and MTV 9/09 Internet poll) • 5% of same age group (both boys and girls) had used cellphones to send nude photos or videos; 18% received them (source: Pew Research Ctr phone poll, 12/09 • np

7. Quotation note card example copy exactly, enclose in quotation marks, use sparingly Original text-    Around the country, law enforcement officials and educators are struggling with how to confront minors who “sext,” an imprecise term that refers to sending sexual photos, videos or texts from one cellphone to another. Definition of sext                                         1  "an imprecise term that refers to sending sexual photos, videos or texts from one cellphone to another" np