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Name ________________________________ Class ______ Date_______________ U.S. History 2016Note-taking Using Source Cards and Notecards (Doc. 3)Look through the books to see if they contain information that will help you answer your research questions. Use the table of contents and index to find any sections or pages in the book relevant to your topic or subtopics. Skim the introductions to get a sense of the scope of the source.Make source cards of all potentially useful sources. This will serve as your preliminary (draft) bibliography, which will eventually become your final bibliography. Write down the full publication information in the proper format (author/editor, title, location, publisher, and date). See Doc. 4 for popular source formats. Give each source a different nickname such as a color, animal, or even the authors’ last names.Required SOURCE Card Information (example for a Book with one Author):Source color/animal/author (give each source a different name)Author Last Name, First Name. Title of the Book. City of Publication: Publishing Company, Copyright Year.Sample SOURCE Card:BlueBenson, Sonia. UXL Encyclopedia of U.S. History, Volume 4. New York: Gale Cengage Learning, 2009.pp. 742-747Blue II A 2-Most immigrants from Europe went through Ellis Island in New York. (742)-Difficult names to spell or pronounce were changed to Americanized names. (744)-Immigrants were inspected for health and labeled based on their medical status. (744)-Those who passed the exams had to swear their allegiance to the United States. (744)(Doc. 3 continued)When you take notes, you must either quote passages directly, using quotation marks around the exact wording, or paraphrase (capture the authors’ ideas in your own words). Either way, you must always cite page numbers.Sample NOTECARDS (on the top right--note the section of the outline that the information should be placed):Blue IVDuring the mid-1800s, immigrants were mainly British, Irish, German, Scandinavian, and Dutch. p. 742During the late 1800s into the early 1900s, increasing numbers of immigrants came from Greece, Turkey, Italy, Russia,Austria-Hungary and Romania. p.742 ................
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