How To Create Your Research Notecards
Front
Name
Research Question?
“Quote/Evidence that helps to answer your research question.”
Speaker – Citation -
Whose voice/words What source did you
are you quoting get it from?
Back
Analysis:
How does the evidence that you wrote on the front of the card help to answer the question?
Explain the evidence in your own words. Who said it and why?
Analyze the evidence to help you answer the question.
Front
Nitzan
What role should other countries play in the wake of genocide?
“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility.”
Speaker: Citation:
Robert Jackson The Nuremberg Case
Supreme Court Justice New York: Alfred A. and Prosecutor Knopf, Inc. 1947
Back
Analysis:
In his opening statement, Robert Jackson began by explaining the challenge of the task before him and the allied powers conducting the Nuremberg Trials. He had a clear understanding that the Nuremberg Trials were the first of their kind and that he and his colleagues were setting an important precedent for the future.