Chapter 6 Summary

Chapter 6 discusses how you should manage your information and how to take notes that will benefit you. This chapter is very helpful because it starts at the first step of note-taking; how to save and organize them. It gives you suggestions on where place your notes. Such as, a notebook, printouts, photo copies and hard copies of texts from books/magazines. With that being a starting point and collecting information from many sources it can be a bit mind-boggling on how to keep it organized. They suggest that you create a plan to help keep track of your print documents, stick to the same organizational scheme, make sure you have the complete publication information, date your notes and lastly write a note on your material. Even further into saving digital notes it breaks down the process for you by suggesting ideas to save the work, from copying and pasting to downloading. The chapter also goes over the importance of taking notes and the benefits you can gain from them. One important thing about taking notes is that you can find direct quotes that support your ideas and that provide your paper with essential knowledge. Another great thing this chapter does is it also goes over the varies ways you can use quotes, from direct quotes to paraphrasing. These are key elements your paper needs to have to help you build a strong argument. Lastly this chapter goes over organize your bibliography. It provides examples to break down how your bibliography should look and how to construct it that way. This chapter is very important to building a strong paper. It provides you with the means of using your notes and sources to build a strong case.