1. 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

2. 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!