Take out Work in Progress Folder

and Spiral Notebook

Work on W.O.D.

The Art of Note-taking

How to take your sources and use them

for your research assignment

What a research paper is…

• facts used to tell audience about a topic

• Facts shown in a unique way • Individual Interpretation and

presentation of facts

What a research paper is not

• Not a dry or boring list of facts• Not a rewriting of someone

else’s work• Not a list of this happened,

then that, then this

What is Interpretation? T.A.C.• Take a fact:• We know William Butler Yeats lived in Ireland

• Add a fact:– We know Yeats wrote poems about Celtic (Irish)

myths

• Connect the dots– If Yeats lived in Ireland and wrote poems about Irish

stories, Yeats had pride in where he came from.

What is presentation?

• How you organize your paper• What order you put your facts in

Before You Present and Interpret…

• To present and interpret information you need to get your information first

• How could you organize your facts?

When you find a fact… What do you do with it?

• Here is a passage (edited a bit)• First published under Emily’s pseudonym (pen

name) Ellis Bell, the combination of its structure and elements of passion, mystery and doomed love…have made Wuthering Heights an enduring masterpiece…Bronte explores themes of revenge, religion, class and prejudice while plumbing the depths of the metaphysical (supernatural) and human psyche (soul). Bronte’s own home in the bleak Yorkshire moors provides the setting for the ….other-worldly passions of… Heathcliff and Catherine.

Ahhh! How do I know what is important?

• Look for facts under the following topics:• Family/Friends/Relationships• Biographical facts• Early life• Later life• Important works• Poetic theme/literary time period/reoccurring

subject matter• Interesting fact about poet

Let’s look at the passage again

• Look for facts for each category:• First published under Emily’s pseudonym Ellis Bell, the

combination of its structure and elements of passion, mystery and doomed love …have made Wuthering Heights an enduring masterpiece. Bronte explores themes of revenge, religion, class and prejudice while plumbing the depths of the metaphysical and human psyche. Bronte’s own home in the bleak Yorkshire moors provides the setting for the ….other-worldly passions of… Heathcliff and Catherine.

What did we find out?

• Interesting fact– Emily’s pen name was Ellis Bell

• Early Life– Bronte lived in the Yorkshire moors

• Important work– Wuthering Heights

• Themes– revenge, religion, class and prejudice– passion, mystery and doomed love

Now to OrganizeSTEP 1: Title of article: Emily BronteSTEP 2: publisher or web address:

http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/

STEP 3: write fact in own wordsEmily’s pen name was Ellis Bell

Now to Organize

STEP 4: No sentencesEllis Bell: pen nameSTEP 5: Choose categoryInteresting fact

Fill in the notecard

Title: Emily Bronte, The Literature Network

Location: <http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/>

Important fact: Ellis Bell: pen name

Topic: Interesting fact name: Ms. Jakse

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