Monday, April 15, 2013

Chapter 6: Managing Information and Taking notes




        This chapter opens up with helpful tips on how to document and organize all the information you gather. By using special apps on your phone to store ongoing notes and by saving relevant information with the necessary URL links and time in order to cite it correctly later. It also goes over some common sense ways of making sure you back up your files and how to summarize and paraphrase sources.  The most helpful tip in this chapter is making sure you keep a working bibliography present. This will help when you compile your works cited list and it’ll be easier to list every reference you used throughout the process.  On page 115 in The Bedford Researcher shows a table on what to document for each type of source you encounter.  This chapter showcases the importance of always staying on top of your notes during the extensive reading and information gathering you will come across. And also to keep all your references up to date with all the required information to annotate for the different avenues you found your information.

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