NOTE CARDS EXERCISE: WEEK 11
GUIDELINES FOR NOTE CARD SIZE AND FUNCTION
In order to allow quick access to your research, create three separate sets of cards:
SIZE:
TYPE OF CARD:
3x5
Bibliography
The formatted information on these cards appears on the Works
Cited page; arrange these cards by author.
4x6
Quote
Write only full quotes from your sources; do not paraphrase or
summarize. Arrange these cards by author.
4x6
Subject
Create an index of all nouns and adjectives from every quote card,
arranged alphabetically by subject (noun or adjective).
Give each noun or adjective a separate card.
After you finish creating these three types of cards for each source, remember to separate
and alphabetize each type of card into its category. When you submit them for a grade,
please have three separate sets of cards, each set alphabetized either by the last name of the
author (bibliography and quote cards) or subject (subject cards).
READ CAREFULLY:
For each quote card, list and reference on separate subject cards each noun and adjective
from the copied quote. Give each noun or adjective a separate card. Multiple references to
the same noun or adjective may go on the same card.
As you build your sources, you will have additional information to note concerning both new
subjects and subjects about which you have already created cards. Add new subject
references to their appropriate cards or create new cards until you have subject cards for
every subject (noun or adjective) from all of your source cards.
Make a separate card for any and all possible subjects (nouns and adjectives), even if you
think them unimportant to your paper. You may need to go back and search through those
subjects if you change or modify your thesis.
GUIDELINES FOR NOTE CARD FORMATS (including punctuation)
BIBLIOGRAPHY CARDS (3 X 5):
BOOKS:
Last Name, (comma) First Name/Initial Middle Name/Initial
Book Title (underlined) followed by an abbreviation (in parentheses)
Place of Publication: (colon) Publishing Company, (comma) Date of Publication
ARTICLES:
Last Name, (comma) First Name/Initial - Middle Name/Initial
"Article Title", (in quotes with a comma) Magazine / Periodical (underlined)
Volume Number (Date) (in parentheses) (colon) page numbers
QUOTE CARDS (4 X 6):
Last Name, (comma) First Name/Initial and/or Middle Name/Initial
Abbreviation/acronym of book (underlined) or article title (in quotes) - page number
[Date is optional but recommended].
Quote in full [no summary or paraphrase, no quotation marks].
SUBJECT CARDS (4 X 6):
Subject: (underlined, followed by a colon) subtopic or adjective optional
Last Name, (comma) First Name/Initial, Middle Name/Initial (space) Abbreviated title of
book or shortened article title in quotes - page number
SOURCE 1 (Sample bibliography, quote, and subject cards):
Bibliography Card for Source 1: (3 x 5)
Görlach, Manfred
Introduction to Early Modern English
( IEME )
New York: Cambridge University Press,
1991
Quote Cards (always a quote): (4 x 6)
Görlach, Manfred
IEME 5
Cheap paper, the decreasing use of Latin
and French, and growing interest in
religious and encyclopeaedic literature
and also in light entertainment caused the
production of books to rise dramatically
in the early fifteenth century.
Görlach, Manfred
IEME 38
In the seventeenth century, the grammar
schools increasingly adopted Englishmedium education; the use of Latin
declined sharply as soon as it began to be
learnt only for reading texts.
Sample Subject Cards for Source 1: (4 x 6):
alphabetize underlined subjects (noun/adjectives) after completing
paper: cheap
decreasing: French (use of)
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Görlach, M. IEME 5
cheap: paper
interest: growing (encl. & rel. lit)
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Latin: decreasing (use of)
growing: interest (encl. & rel. lit)
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Görlach, M. IEME 38
Görlach, M. IEME 5
decreasing: Latin (use of)
literature: encyclopeaedic
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Görlach, M. IEME 38
Görlach, M. IEME 5
French: decreasing (use of)
encyclopeaedic: literature
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Sample Subject Cards for Source 1 (continued): (4 x 6)
alphabetize underlined subjects (noun/adjectives) after completing
religious: literature
production: (of) books
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Görlach, M. IEME 5
literature: religious
century: 15th - early
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Görlach, M. IEME 5
entertainment: light
15th: century - early
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Görlach, M. IEME 5
light: entertainment
schools: grammar
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Görlach, M. IEME 38
books: production (of)
grammar: schools
Görlach, M. IEME 5
Görlach, M. IEME 38
Sample Subject Cards for Source 1 (continued): (4 x 6)
alphabetize underlined subjects (noun/adjectives) after completing
century: 17th
Görlach, M. IEME 38
17th: century
Görlach, M. IEME 38
education: English-medium
Görlach, M. IEME 38
English-medium: education
Görlach, M. IEME 38
texts: reading
Görlach, M. IEME 38