1. Setting up your note cards & Taking notes for research
Be sure to use ruled (lined) note cards and set them up right the first time!

2. Getting ready to take notes…
Gather your source materials.
Be sure that you have printed online sources like website pages and articles from Inspire.
You will need a writing utensil, cards, and highlighters.
Be sure that you have your source cards correctly MLA formatted and numbered!

3. Note card set up…
EACH note card should match the number of the source card that it came from! So, if you take several note cards from source #1, they’ll all get a 1 in the corner!
AFTER you have taken your notes, determine the main idea of them. Create a brief heading and write it in the left corner.
Take notes here! Be sure to write on the front side only! You might use bullets, write in sentences, or write a paragraph!
CODE your notes, based on what type of notes they are. On the next slide, I will explain!
IF your source has a page number, write it here. If not, don’t worry about it!

4. Take different types of notes and code them on the bottom of your note card!
Q—Quoted material. You have copied word for word from a source and enclosed it in quotation marks on your card. When you use in your paper, you will need to cite the source!
CK—Common knowledge. This means this info can be found in multiple sources. It is not unique information. When used in your paper, you will not need to cite it!
S—Summarized information. You take a lot of material (perhaps several paragraphs) and condense it, make it shorter. You pull out the main points, or highlights, of what you have read. Ask who? What? where? When? Why? How? This material when in your paper will need to be cited because you’re “borrowing” it.
P—Paraphrased material. I will work on this with you in class! It is taking someone else’s thoughts/words and writing it the way YOU would—same ideas but different words and word order!

5. Two categories of 10-14 and 14-18
So, your note card might look like this…
Formation of 2
Called Jugenbund
Started in 1922
Could join at age 10
Two categories of and 14-18
Was run like military with those kinds of rules CK

6. Or it might look like this…
Membership 3
“Among the organizations of the National Socialist Party the Hitler youth has long been regarded as unique because of its large working-class membership, estimated as high as seventy-percent…”
Q p. 355