Recording and Organizing

Jot Notes

After you read your source material you need to make jot notes to keep track of the information you have found.

What are they?

- point form notes with only basic, important facts from the source

- written in your own words to show you understand what you have read

- NEVER copied word for word from a source!

-hand written on binder paper or made in Word/OneNote to be submitted for your research mark

-always made at school

Sources

Cite Your Sources!

You MUST report where you found all information.

Failing to report your sources is like cheating on a test!

Your stealing someone elses work!

so...

Keep a List of Your Sources

1. Books

   For example, a book with one author would look like this:

Author's last name, First name. Title of book. Place: Publisher, Year published.

So your citation would look like this:

Dubus, Andre. Into the Silence: American Stories. Cambridge: Green Street, 1988.

2. WEB PAGE  would look like this:

"Title of the Article." Title of the Website. Date of Update or Publication.  WEB.  Date you visited the site. URL which is the web address

So your citation would look like this:

"Facts about Poverty."  The Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction . City of Hamilton. 11 October 2012.  WEB. 13 November 2012.     http://thehamiltonroundtableforpovertyreduction.ca       

If there is no publication date or update and you have checked with Miss Kiss - you write N.p.n.d.