Note Taking for ResearchWhen researching a topic for a class project, you usually

need to use at least Portable Legacies, literary journals,

books, Internet, and videos.

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But Whyyyyy Take NotesTo Organize Ideas

To Give Credit to Original AuthorsBecause I Said So

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Okay, Okay, So I Take Notes

Use Index CardsSheets of Paper

Sticky NotesElectronic Files

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Organizing Source InformationPut source information on separate cards

Example:Title and author: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeFrom: Portable Legacies. Editors: Jan Zlotnik Schmidt and Lynne Crockett. Publishing Information: Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013. Pages: 465-506.

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Emphasize Arguments, By Using Specific Sources

One example (Direct Quotation):Oscar Wilde satirizes London English schools during the Victorian era in the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, where he has Lady Bracknell say, "Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor square“ (475).

Another Example (Paraphrasing):Oscar Wilde satirizes English upper class beliefs, as well as its schools, by having one of his Victorian characters in The Importance of Being Earnest talk about education being ineffectual. She further says that if the system were effective, it could lead the lower classes to revolution and chaos (475).

Last But Not Least

List Sources in the Works Cited Page

Works Cited

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. Portable Legacies. Ed. Jan Zlotnik Schmidt and Lynne

Crockett. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013. 465-506. Print.