Note Cards for Research Projects

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Note Card

Whether you use a computer or a pen or a pencil, take notes about small units of information so you can arrange and rearrange information as you draft your paper. Take particular care to quote and paraphrase accurately and to key each note clearly to its source.

citing online periodicals..............................................................Hacker 341

"When citing online articles, follow the guidelines for printed articles . . . giving whatever information is available in the online source. At the end of the citation, include the date of access and the URL [uniform resource locator or Web address]."

Hacker gives three examples from journals, newspapers, and magazines accessible online.

8 October 1998

        • heading to identify topic of note at upper left
        • source last name and pages in source at upper right
        • exact quotation in quotation marks, paraphrase or summary not in quotation marks
        • ellipsis points . . . to signal omitted words
        • square brackets [..] to signal an interpolation by the notetaker
        • slash / to signal a page change
        • date note written

Working Bibliography Card

Compose one card for each source that you think you might eventually use. Write the entry using the documentation method you will use in your final paper.

Hacker, Diana. A Writer's Reference. 4th ed. Boston: Bedford, 1999.

 

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