Labeling Notes
Label Your Notes: Summary, Paraphrase, or Quotation When you are taking notes, you might jot down the general parameters of an experiment you read about, you might summarize an author’s argument, or you might...
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Documenting Notes
In addition to labeling your notes, you need to keep track of the sources of your notes. You could write the full source on the back of each card or at the bottom of...
See It in Practice
In the video cast below, you’ll see how our writer keeps track of her sources and labels information from one of her sources for her research paper.
Time to Write
It’s time now for you to work on taking notes from your sources to help you when you begin drafting your research essay. You’ll want to establish some kind of clear organizational system, as...
See It in Practice
In this video cast, you’ll see how our student writer has organized all of her research into a traditional outline.
Time to Write
Using one of the sample outline formats modeled for you in this section, it’s time for you to draft an outline for your paper. Remember to use an outline that fits your writing situation....
Summarizing
One way to integrate your source information is through summary. Summaries are generally used to restate the main ideas of a text in your own words. They are usually substantially shorter than the original...
Paraphrasing
When you want to use specific materials from an argument to support a point you are making in your paper but want to avoid too many quotes, you should paraphrase. What is a paraphrase?...