Research Notecards

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.