Take detailed notes

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Take detailed notes

• Luo Yuqing
• BUPT-SH

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Purpose of note-taking

• Collect supporting evidences
• Interpret information
• Reexamine your ideas
• Readjust and expand your ideas

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Before you take notes

• Try to develop specific questions from the
  particular point or sub-point you are working on.
• Locate promising passages with likely answers by
  scanning through your sources

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How to take notes

• Follow the order of sub-points arranged in your
  outline
• Work on headings and subheadings one at a time
• Do not merely copy from your sources evaluate
  and interpret the information

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How to use note cards

• One card for one piece of information
• Write the outline heading on top of the card
• Indicate authors name, title, page
• Arrange cards in outline order

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Types of notes

• Direct quotation
• Summary
• Paraphrase
• Combination of method

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Avoid plagiarism

• In-text citation
• Works cited list at the end
• Be careful with paraphrasing notes
• Both sentence structure and wording should be
  different
• Apply quotation marks to exactly what portion you
  quote

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Note-taking checklist

• Include outline subheading
• Distinguish original ideas of other people from
  common knowledge
• Provide author, title, page number
• Use quotation marks for any quoted part
• Do not distort authors meaning when paraphrase
  or summarize
• Identify your own ideas from quoted ones