Avoid Plagiarism
Learn how to
take notes properly!
Tips for taking notes:
• Start by writing down the source!
Researchers must tell where they got
their ideas from… or else it’s like
“stealing.”
• Read and re-read until you understand the
section. Then, pick out main ideas.
• Skip extra information that doesn’t answer
your focus questions. Don’t get off track!
• Don’t use complete sentences.
• Don’t copy every word! Skip
“weenie” words like “a” and “the”.
• If you want to copy the exact wording
of your source, YOU MUST put it in
“quotation marks.”
• Abbreviate! Use symbols or pictures
instead of words.
• B/c = because H (an initial for
a word you keep using)
Summary:
• Give source first! • Abbreviate! Use
• main ideas symbols!
• Skip “weenie” • no complete
words like “a” and sentences.
“the” • exact wording:
• only answer focus requires “quotation
questions. Don’t marks.”
get off track! • Put ideas into lists.
Focus Question: What causes a heart attack?
World Book Online:
“A heart attack occurs suddenly, but the factors that
cause it take years to build up. Deposits in the
coronary arteries begin early in life and
eventually block the artery. These diagrams
show one possible sequence of events leading to
a heart attack.”
Focus Question: What causes a heart attack?
World Book Online:
“A heart attack occurs suddenly, but the factors that
cause it take years to build up. Deposits in the
coronary arteries begin early in life and
eventually block the artery. These diagrams
show one possible sequence of events leading to
a heart attack.”
• Early life: fat deposits form.... Source:
• Build up...block coronary artery... WBO
• When closed H. ATTACK!
Now you try!
See your handout!
• Read your focus question.
• Skim the section for the answer.
• Underline key words in the passage.
• Write the note. Follow the tips!
Disease can strike any part of the heart...The
most common heart disease narrows the
arteries that supply the heart itself with blood
and oxygen. Deposits of fatty material
gradually build up and block these arteries. If
the heart receives too little oxygen, it may
work poorly or even die. Damage to the heart
muscle resulting from lack of oxygen is
called a heart attack. A mild heart attack may
force a person to lead a less active life, and a
severe attack may cause death.
Disease can strike any part of the heart...The
most common heart disease narrows the
arteries that supply the heart itself with blood
and oxygen. Deposits of fatty material
gradually build up and block these arteries. If
the heart receives too little oxygen, it may
work poorly or even die. Damage to the heart
muscle resulting from lack of oxygen is
called a heart attack. A mild heart attack may
force a person to lead a less active life, and a
severe attack may cause death.
Bad note:
Damage to the heart muscle resulting
from lack of oxygen is called a heart
attack. A mild heart attack may force
a person to lead a less active life, and
a severe attack may cause death.
Why is this a bad note?
Good note:
H. Attack Results:
Source:
• heart muscle damaged World Book
Online
• a less active life or
• death!
Can you improve this note further?
Take another note from World Book Online!
Focus Question: How can heart attacks be
prevented?
Doctors have also learned that people can take
important steps to protect the health of their
hearts. Most people can greatly reduce their
risk of heart disease by exercising regularly,
avoiding smoking, and limiting the amount of
fat and calories in their diets.
Focus Question: How can heart attacks be
prevented?
Doctors have also learned that people can take
important steps to protect the health of their
hearts. Most people can greatly reduce their
risk of heart disease by exercising regularly,
avoiding smoking, and limiting the amount of
fat and calories in their diets.
Resulting note:
Ways to prevent H. Attack: Source:
World
• regular exercise Book
• diet: low fat and low calories Online
• don’t smoke
Summary:
• Give source first! • Abbreviate! Use
• main ideas symbols!
• Skip “weenie” • no complete
words like “a” and sentences.
“the” • exact wording:
• only answer focus requires “quotation
questions. Don’t marks.”
get off track! • Put ideas into lists.
Best order to use for research:
• Reference book • Books from library
(encyclopedia or a or trolley
science • Other databases in
encyclopedia) library’s
• World Book Online RESEARCH
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