1. From usual to unique in a few steps
Notes in Noodletools
From usual to unique in a few steps

2. The Usual Report original thinking Print or copy pages
Highlight key information
Summarize the information in each source
Put the information in an essay
Add an introduction
Add a conclusion
The End
original
thinking

3. Example: Introduction Conclusion Source #1 Source #2 Source #3
All About A Car
Introduction
Source #1
Summary,
Source #2
Summary,
Source #3
Summary,
Source #4
Summary.
Conclusion

4. try fitting bits & pieces
Instead of 4 summaries,
try fitting bits & pieces
from each source
in places that support
your thesis

5. To build one unique result

6. Or this unique result…
Or this …
Or this …

7. The Best Way to Avoid Source Summaries?
Support a precise thesis statement
with
Noodletools Notes.

8. The 1967 release of the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner coincided with the Loving’s Supreme Court challenge of a Virginia Law forbidding interracial marriage and thereby accurately reflected the slowly changing attitudes of Americans toward interracial marriage.
The writer will focus on
the film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
attitudes toward interracial marriage
reasons for opposition to interracial marriage
laws prohibiting interracial marriage
existence of black/white interracial marriage.
challenges to those laws
The writer will not explore
Segregation
Jim Crow laws
Civil Rights movement
other aspects of a racially divided nation
any other form of interracial marriage.

9. All forms of Interracial marriage
Civil Rights
Fully Loaded
with
Original Thinking
The focus of the thesis will determine the shape of the essay. Whatever the focus, though, the essay will be…
Segregation
All forms of Interracial marriage

10. One fact/idea = one note card
15 note cards from 2 sources
Loving
vs.
Virginia
1 idea
1 fact
1 idea
1 fact
1 idea
1 fact
1 fact
1 idea
1 idea
1 fact
1 idea
1 fact
1 fact
1 idea
1 fact
Reasons for opposition
Having only one fact or one idea on each notecard enables writers to move a fact or idea to the part of the paper in which it can best support the thesis statement. In this way, 6 facts from one source can easily be separated and moved to 6 different places within the paper.

11. Each card is labeled with Pile, Tag & Title.
Each card is connected to its source. This helps the writer correctly cite information within the paper.
Each card is labeled with Pile, Tag & Title.
Interracial Marriage
Opposition
Religious
Cultural
Laws
States
Challenges
a. Loving
C Evidence of Change
Guess Who’s Coming…
Parents 1
Parents 2
Loving v. Virginia. No Supreme Ct. of the US. 12 June Find Law. Web.  3 Feb URL
Source – URL/Pages
Pile – Big idea
Tag – Part of big idea
Title – Very specific idea
Laws
Challenges
Loving v. Virginia
Each label has a designated spot within the paper’s outline:
Pile = A, B, C
Tag = 1, 2, 3
Title = a,b,c

12. Piles & Tags for Thesis Defense
Opposition
Cultural – 2 cards
Religious – 3 cards
Laws
Challenges – 9 cards
States – 1 card
9 note cards gathered from 3 sources are assigned to the same pile, the same tag.
6 note cards from one source distributed among 3 tags in 2 piles
The ONE FACT- ONE CARD rule allows creative distribution of information throughout the paper.

13. Creating a Note Card: Establishing Source & Topics
Will become the a,b,c part of outline. Can be changed later.
Type Very Specific Idea
Piles and Tags can be typed now or when notecards are sorted.

14. Your Ideas Direct Quote Paraphrase
Note Card
Questions you have.
What’s next?
Copy & Paste or page #. Limit to 1 idea or fact.
Your Ideas
Direct Quote
Paraphrase
Your own words. Tell it to someone else before typing it.

15. The body of a note card
The paraphrase is the part you will most likely use in the paper.
"Punishment for marriage. � If any white person intermarry with a colored person, or any colored person intermarry with a white person, he shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years."
If you use part or all of a direct quote in your paper, you must use quotation marks.
Interracial marriage, according to Virginia law, was illegal.  The punishment for the crime of intermarriage was 5 years in a penitentiary.
Prompt for further investigation.
What did the Supreme Court ruling decide about Virginia's law?

16. Type outline: I, II, III; A., B., C.; 1., 2., 3.
Interracial Marriage
Opposition
Religious
Cultural
Laws
States
Challenges
a. Loving
C Evidence of Change
Guess Who’s Coming…
Parents 1
Parents 2
Opposition to interracial marriage
Laws forbidding interracial marriage
Evidence of change
Type Pile names as A B C in outline OR name Piles to match A B C in outline.

17. Finishing the Outline with Notecards
Interracial Marriage
Opposition
Religious
Cultural
Double click to open a pile.
Pile = Opposition to interracial marriage
Then drag cards into the outline, matching tags (Religious opposition) to the outline’s 1, 2, and 3 s. The cards will appear in the outline.

18. Note Cards in Noodletools
are connected to sources for easy citing within the paper
are comprised of three parts
direct quote
paraphrase
my ideas
are organized into “Piles”
according to Big Ideas
that correspond with ABC level of outline
have “Tags” that
reveal what part of a Big Idea is addressed
correspond with 123 level of outline
can be dragged directly into the outline for the paper
help writers organize information in their creation of a unique product

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