Taking notes without plagiarizing. Practicing with a thesaurus Taking notes without plagiarizing. Practicing with a thesaurus. Name ____________ per _____ date _____ Example text: (from Shakespeare Online): “Shakespeare influenced every generation of writers since his death and he continues to have an enormous impact on contemporary plays, movies, and poems.” Now highlight (or underline or circle) the nouns, verbs, and the adjectives: “Shakespeare influenced every generation of writers since his death and he continues to have an enormous impact on contemporary plays, movies, and poems.” Use the thesaurus, look up appropriate synonyms for these nouns, verbs, and adjectives. List here: Shakespeare (It’s a proper noun and there’s only one, so use the name as is.) generation writers death impact plays (Can you come up with a general category word for these three?) movies poems influenced continues have every enormous contemporary

4. Now let’s turn our source text into notes as a bulleted list of short phrases of information, substituting our new synonyms for the original words, as necessary. Use these questions to get you started: Q: What has Shakespeare done? Shakespeare has __________________________________________ Q: Since how long? ___________________________________________ Q: What result? __________________________________________ 5. Now you’re ready to turn this list of your notes into your new complete sentences, capitalized and punctuated, like you would in an article or essay: ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE TAKEN NOTES ON SOURCE INFORMATION AND USED THEM WITHOUT PLAGIARIZING! IT GETS QUICKER AND EASIER THE MORE YOU PRACTICE IT!