ENG4C - Research Note Taking Tips by Wyer



ENG.4C1-RESEARCH: NOTE TAKINGDifferent ways to take notes while researching to put into your own words and gain information without plagiarizing! Plagiarizing: to take someone’s else’s idea and not give credit to where you got the information from. This = a ZERO and sometimes course failure in College/University. It can also result in grounds for dismissal in the workplace.Strategies for Note-Taking:Using Keywords:_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ie. PETHS = Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School Other examples:____________________________________________________________________________________________Original Text: Ms. Wyer loves to travel and explore different cultures. She started travelling after graduating from McMaster University in 2008 and finally University of Toronto in 2009. She moved and lived in London, England for six months, lived in Italy twice during the summer, and lived in Australia for two years. She has now returned home to Canada, for the time being. ExampleWyer: travelling since 2009. Went to MAC and UofT. Lived-England, Italy, Australia. Home-Canada.Original Text: She is currently teaching the grade 12 college level English class, which focuses mostly on writing forms, research skills, organizing ideas and preparing students for the world of college.ExampleENG4C1: college prep; research skills; writing org. & formSummarize: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________?Example: Source:Solnit, Rebecca. Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Print. Original Text:By and large Yosemite has been preserved as though it were a painting. The boundaries of thepark are the gilt frame around a masterpiece, and within the frame we are urged to take onlypictures, leave only footprints. There are enormously important reasons to do so—there are toomany people coming to the park to do it any other way—and yet I cannot help feeling somethingis sadly missing from this experience of nature. Looking is a fine thing to do to pictures, buthardly an adequate way to live in the world. It is nature as a place in which we do not belong, aplace in which we do not live, in which we are intruders. A tourist is by definition an outsider, aperson who does not belong, a stranger in paradise.? Example of Summarizing using your own words: Conservation efforts traditionally have represented Yosemite as a work of art marked by distinct borders (Solnit 263). While Solnit acknowledges that this representation may serve to protect the park, she also suggests that it limits the individual’s relationship to the landscape (263).Paraphrase: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________?Original Text:In the first season of The Sopranos, Tony Soprano’s mobster activities are more threatened by members of his biological family than by agents of the federal government. This familial betrayal is multi-pronged. Tony’s closest friend and associate is an FBI informant, his mother and uncle are conspiring to have him killed, and his children are surfing the Web for information about his activities.?ExampleProblems within the Soprano family are worse than problems caused by the federal government. The betrayal includes one family member turning informant, a hit being put out on Tony by family members, and Tony’s kids tracking his activities.Direct Quotation: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________?Example “A tourist is by definition an outsider, a person who does not belong, a stranger in paradise” (Frankum 72). ................
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