Note-taking: The Trash and Treasure

Method

What is the best way What is the best way to collect information to collect information from your sources?from your sources?

Step 1 - Identify Step 1 - Identify keywordskeywordsHighlight the keywords in your questions and generate a list of related words.

BRAINSTOBRAINSTORM!RM!

USE A USE A THESAURUSTHESAURUS!!

To Scan:

Quickly look over the material and try to pick out one specific point or keyword

Use the control+F keys to FIND important keywords within your articles

Step 2 - Skim & Step 2 - Skim & Scan!!Scan!!

To Skim:To Skim:•Take in large chunks of text at one time

•Get an idea of the whole passage

•Don’t read every word!

•Read the first and last paragraphs of a document

•Read the first and last sentences of a paragraph

Now that Now that you’ve found you’ve found what you’ve what you’ve been looking been looking for…for…

It’s time to It’s time to USE the USE the INFORMATIOINFORMATION!N!

You will need You will need to take good to take good

notes to use in notes to use in writing your writing your

paper!paper!

There are three There are three steps in note steps in note taking…taking… 1. Finding Keywords

2. Skimming and Scanning

3. Extracting the information and adding your own thoughts

•Facts

•Summaries

•Paraphrased material

•Quotations

There are four types of There are four types of notes:notes:

FacFac

ts!ts!Columbus sailed in 1492

The are 50 states in the

USAGeorge Washington was the first president of the United States

Remember to record the citation information. You will need this for your

bibliography page.

You can copy and paste facts into your notes!

SummarSummarizeizeRead a large section for overall meaning and put it into one or two sentences.

Remember to record the citation information. You will need this for your

bibliography page.

ParaphraseParaphrasePut large amounts of information into your own words.

This is good for supporting information, biographical information, predictions, hypothesis, and drawing conclusions

Remember to record the citation information. You will need this for your

bibliography page.

QuotQuotee•Quotations are used for one or two sentence statements that prove a point or reveal an attitude.

•Use quotations to back up your own thoughts and comments.

•Don’t forget the quotation marks so you remember that you quoted the material!

Remember to record the citation information. You will need this for your

bibliography page.

So So let’s let’s

dig indig in pull pull

apart apart the the text!text!

Information in this presentation is based on:

Jansen, Barbara. “Reading for Information: The Trash-N-Treasure Method of Teaching Note-Taking.” 16 Oct. 2006. 16 Nov. 2007. http://www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id=45

Tomasino, Christine. “Trash-n-Treasure to Build Comprehension: Pulling Apart the Text by Annotating Slides in PowerPoint.” 16 Nov. 2007. www.efriendlylearning.com/presentations/reading/Annotatingwtrashtreasure.ppt -

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