Video: How to Take Research Notes

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When taking research notes, take general interest notes before going out and finding sources for a research paper. Take research notes with tips from a produced playwright in this free video on writing skills.

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Hi this is Laura Turner and today I'm going to talk to you about taking research notes. A research paper can be a pretty daunting task, but the most important thing for you to do is to take as many notes as possible so that you can get as much out of your work as you need to get. So what you are going to do is you are going to go ahead and pick your topic first. And once you've gotten that nailed down what you need to do is you actually need to start taking your own notes on what interests you about that topic. Don't just stick with the questions that you are going to be writing on, maybe even branch out into the world of your topic. So for example if you are writing about Macbeth, for a research paper, Shakespeare's Macbeth, you can sort of ask yourself questions like what was going on in the world of Shakespeare's time when he was writing his play. And then you can delve into finding sources that will help you to expand your paper and really turn it into something that is bigger then just the topic that you've chosen. So my suggestion to you is to write down as many questions that interest you about your topic as possible and then go to the library or get online and find as many articles and books as you can possibly get your hands on and take down the quotations from these books. And even write down the information of the books for later use. So you'll have more then enough information to write your paper.

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