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Where to Start: Note or Index card.
 
     

Understand Question
Research

 

Taking notes on index cards gives you the flexibility to change the order or group your notes in any way you wish , sorting and putting them together easily. These are available in most stationery stores. But a reasonable size that you can easily carry around.

 

 

Steps:


 

1. Write the subtopic heading at the top of each note card.

2. Write one main point per card.

3. Do not write anything unrelated to your topic.

4. Write only essential words.

5. Use abbreviations.

6. Check accuracy of points ,direct quotes and statistics.

7. Identify direct quotes with quotation marks and the author,s name.

8. Using your own words, put them in brackets [ ] when adding them to a quote.

9. Use ellipsis points (...) where you leave out unnecessary words from a quote.

10. Distinguish between 'fact' and 'opinion'.

11. Write the page number of the source after the note.

 

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Sample Card:

Sub topic/Heading
Source number

 

Notes, notes, notes, notes.....

 

Page number

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