William Hoffmann
4/16/14
English 102
Chapter 6 Summary
Chapter six discusses the importance of taking notes on your sources. The text talks about how to save sources on a computer for future access such as copying and pasting, downloading, or sending e-mails to yourself. Saving your work on a computer allows access to them later and saves time in drafting an annotated bibliography. However, smartphones work as well by searching for information on the web and noting your sources using one of many note taking apps. In addition, taking notes can be a little more tricky than some may think. There are ways of taking notes to avoid plagiarism such as using quotation marks, parenthesis, brackets, or the "sic". Taking notes about your sources is important because it not only helps you find out if it works for your paper but it saves you time in looking for that source if needed for a later time.
If passages are taken out of a website, paraphrasing or summarizing them for analysis can help avoid plagiarism which is why it is important to sometimes not take full passages out of sources. Taking a lot of notes can sometimes get messy and disorganized, but documenting your sources in files or labeling them can help you keep track of which source is which. Also classifying sources can help. Some ways of classifying sources include: tagging and labeling, grouping, listing, and visualizing. Taking notes and documenting sources will help make a great annotated bibliography.
Very good!
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