Organize your research with notecards.
Your term paper may feel like a gargantuan task. The actual writing aspect seems to be the very least of it, as you spend countless hours researching, taking notes and attempting to synthesize your findings into a coherent and logical final product. If you are feeling overwhelmed, try transferring your notes onto notecards. Creating notecards can assist you in both narrowing down your research and organizing your paper.
Instructions
1. Create a notecard for each reference. These will help you keep track of your references and write your bibliography. Include the author, title, city of publication, publisher and publishing date in the citation style your professor has instructed you to use.
2. Gather your notes. By now you should have formulated a thesis statement for your term paper. Go through your notes and select only those items that directly pertain to your thesis statement. These items can be events, facts, quotes or other relevant points.
3. Write an individual notecard for each item that you selected in Step 2. Summarize facts, events, points and concepts as briefly as possible. Write down quotes verbatim and enclose them in quotation marks.
4. Write down the author and page number(s) from which you obtained the item on the upper right-hand corner of your notecard.
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