How To Take Notes

The kind of notes that you collect from your reading will determine the quality of your paper.

1. Skim through the chapter, section, or article to see what it contains for your purpose.

2. Choose items of information or ideas for their relevance to your thesis sentence.

3. Make a distinction between facts and author’s opinions

4. Separate a direct quotation from an indirect quotation. Note down a quotation exactly as it appears in the source.

5. Make a distinction between what you take from your sources and your comments or reactions.

6. Summarize or paraphrase items of information from your sources.

7. Take down the exact source of your notes, the title, the author, facts of publication, and page number.

8. Use note cards. Researches use 4”x 6” cards for note taking purposes.

Run in short quotations with the rest of the text and set them off with quotation marks. Indent long passages as separate paragraphs and do not enclose them in quotation marks.

Remember:

Write sic (thus) in brackets to indicate an error that you find in the source.

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Benefits 1

Thermal ink transfer, writing technology is simple, versatile, and relatively inexpensive. Machines can be had for less than $15, 000.

A, 50. key to bibliography/ page number in source

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Jones, Boyd. “Thermal Ink Transfer.” Computer Graphics World, 7 (May 1984), 45-50.

Writing your first and second draft.

Documenting the Report

Documentation is the recording of published source materials for the research report. Sources are recorded in two forms: (1) a bibliography which appears at the end of the report, (2) footnotes which appears usually placed at the bottom of the page and (3) endnotes which are list of references found at the end of the chapter.

Function of the bibliography:

To have all the sources listed in one place and allows you to make a simpler footnote forms

Function of footnotes:

Satisfy the obligation of indebtedness and to check the authenticity of the text or to find additional information

Bibliography:

An alphabetized list, according to the author’s last names, of all the written sources you have consulted- books, magazine articles, pamphlets, bulletins.

For Books and Booklets:

The author’s name (surname first), the title (along with the data pertinent to it), the place of publication, the publisher’s name, and the date of publication.

Rules:

1.A period follows each element: authorship, title, and publishing data.

2. Each entry is single spaced.

3.The first line begins even with the left- hand margin; additional lines if needed are indented five spaces.

4. There is double spacing between entries.

Example:

Francis, Wilfred. Boiler House and Power Station

Chemistry. London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1980.

Aquino, Gaudencio. Educational Psychology.

Philippines: Rex Printing Company, Inc., 1977.

Bibliography having multiple authors:

Gaum, Joseph B., Robert C. Miranda & Erica V.

Padlan.Reporting Writing 3d. ed. New York:

Prentice- Hall, Inc., 1985.

An entry having more than three authors:

Chua, Beverly Joyce & et.al. Educational Psychology.

Manila: Rex Printing Company, Inc., 1998.

Entry from a booklet:

Pigman, Charles L., and Thomas M. Edwards. Airline

Pilot Qustionnaire: Study on Cockpit Visibility

Problems. Technical Development Report No.123.

Indianapolis, Ind.: Civil Aeronautics

Administration, 1982.

Entry from a thesis:

Chua, Beverly Joyce & et.al. “A Study on the Reasons

Why the Fourth Year Students of PCHS- annex

Engage in Sports”. ths, Philippine Cultural High

School, 2007.

Magazine Entries

Authorship & Title

Published data( name of the magazine, the date of publication of the issue in which the article appears, and the page references)

Entry from a magazine

A period follows each main element of the entry

The title of the article is enclosed in quotation marks

The number written before the date of issue is the volume number of the magazine

If no authorship is given, enter it alphabetically according to the first important word of its title.

“New Atomic-Powered Submarine.”

Time, 28 (August 29, 1980), 56.

Abbot, John. “Wood as an Insulator.” Dielectric

Review, 55 (January 22, 1981), 56-76.

King, Jenny. “Class Attendance”. Life’s Work.

Philippines: Business Matters Publishing, 1999.

www.gwu.edu~psyc1121bayran, 11th November 2007.

www.gwu.edu~psyc1121bayran, 2007.

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