Note Taking Overview

Things you need to do totake good notes

What is needed on a card?

• Source # - where did you get your source?– Number your sources– Author– Do not include title only – many times you will have

the same title for several articles.– Why?

What is needed on a card?

• Main Idea– What is the main idea for your notes?– One idea per note card– Why?

What is needed on a card?

• Notes– Use quotes when word for word– Paraphrase

• Own words• New sentence structure

– Why?

What is needed on a card?

Source Card

The very last note card is a list of sources and the number you gave them. It doesn’t need to be formatted like a Works Cited page.

Color Code Cards

• See video also located on your Libguide.

• Color the same main ideas and like ideas into one color.

• How?– Right click on the card– Choose Background then color

Marijuana Influence

• Effects on driving– Difficulty keep same speed– Swerving into different lanes of traffic– Slower time to react to situations– Noticed even 24 hours after

• National Highway Traffic Safety Admin. study

#1 Rushman

p.32

You might not useeverything you write down.

Paraphrase 90% of the time.

*use your own words

*not substituting one word for another

*make a new phrase/sentence structure

If quoting (10% of time),

use quotation marks.

“ ”

Note the page number

(if book)

and identify the source

- see example.

Use the bulletsfeature on your notes.

Phrases.

1 main idea per card

Caveman Language

Notes fit your essentialquestion.

Original Text: It goes without saying that one should not drive after using mood-altering drugs. This is also true of marijuana, which can impair various aspects of drivingbehavior.

A study conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that THC impaired a driver’s ability to maintain a constant speed, stay in one’s lane,and react to the speed of the car in front; even a relatively dose of THC slowed Reaction time.

Counterpoint: Legalizing Marijuana

Notes:

Keeps you from plagiarizing.

When you write your paper, you will be able to use your own sentence structure and not copy the same structure from the original text.

Keeps you from plagiarizing.

When you write your paper, you will be able to use your own sentence structure and not copy the same structure from the original text.

Back to What is Needed

Why Put a Number on Card?

• Later, when you write your paper, every time you refer to a fact (even if in your own words), you must tell the source.

Example in your paper:An individual can still be impacted by marijuana use 24 hours later (Rushman).

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Why include main idea?

• After you complete your note cards, you will then arrange them according to main ideas.

• These main ideas will be color-coded and then moved together (see video).

• You will now have the beginning of an outline AND your paper will now “write itself”.

Back to What is Needed

Main Idea/Title of your card

• Phrases

Source #

Page (if book)