Notecards and Source Cards in Mr. Sakson’s Class

1. Notecards and Source Cardsin Mr. Sakson’s Class

2. Pay attention and take good notes. If you do, then you will have all of the steps you need to: • Make proper notecards for your paper. • Write your bibliography.* • Write your parenthetical citations.* *You will learn the formats of these last two at a later date. The note and source cards, however, will give you the raw materials you need for the later steps.

3. Source Cards • Source Cards contain all of the info from a particular source that you will need for your bibliographies. • They MUST be made the moment you decide to use a source.

4. Source cards contain: For Books: • title • Author(s) or editor(s) • date of publication • place of publication (company and city/state)

5. Source Cards for Magazines and Encyclopedias: • article title • magazine or encyc. title • author(s) or editor(s) • date of publication • place of publication

6. For Websites: • site name or basic site address • (Ex: dog.com) • author or page designer/editor (if listed) • date of article publication or date viewed • full site address: • (http://www.dog.com/dog-gifts-for-dog-lovers/818/)

7. Hints: --You may cut and paste long Web addresses. --If there is “no author” listed, you do not have to include the author.

8. Guess what these contain? NOTECARDS

9. One Side ←Page numbers are very important; you will need them for your parenthetical citations. ←Use paragraph #s for Web articles.

10. The Other Side ↑ “Subtopic” means the part of the topic on which you are currently focusing. Make notecards by subtopic, not by whatever happens to be on that page. This will make it easier to group topics and begin writing paragraphs.

11. Go Forth and Research!!!!!!