Color-Coded Notetaking
White Cards
Source #
Complete citation
Add information on the back of the card on the
usefulness/uniqueness of the source. Indicate
if source is entry-level or in-depth. You may
also want to include special features of the
source.
White Card Example-Front
Source # 1
Bibliography:
Gatewood, Willard B. “Theodore Roosevelt and Arkansas,
1901-1912.” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 11,
no. 1 (1973): 813-822. Accessed January 24, 2013.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40038101.
Example of First Occurrence of Footnote:
1. Willard B. Gatewood, “Theodore Roosevelt and Arkansas, 1901-1912,” The Arkansas
Historical Quarterly 11, no. 1 (1973): 817, accessed January 24, 2013,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40038101.
Example of subsequent notes from source:
2. Gatewood, “Theodore Roosevelt”, 820.
White Card Example-Back
This is an in-depth source that details Arkansas
initial hope that Roosevelt would understand
the ideals of “the south” and preside
accordingly, and the subsequent backlash he
experienced as the result of some of his
political decisions. Includes references to the
Square Deal.
Red Cards
“Stop and cite.”
Bib Card # ______ Page ________
Direct Quotation from Text or Source- Must be exact
Quotations as they appear
Ideas
Interpretation
Personal Theory
Etc.
Must be cited!
Red Card Example
“Stop and cite.”
Source #2 pg. 1
From an article in the Christian Science Monitor dated July 31st, 1919:
“The negroes disappeared from sight in the downtown district. Many
others could not or did not get to work and most of the rest were
sent home for their own safety.” ²
2.
“Troops Called Out in Chicago,” The Christian Science Monitor, July 31, 1919, accessed January 23,
2013, Proquest Historical Newspapers.*
*There are several correct ways to cite newspaper articles, according to the Chicago Manual of Style.
Yellow Cards
“caution…stop and cite.”
Bib Card # ______ Page ________
Factual Information From An Outside Source-In your own
words (paraphrased)
Events and Explanations
Statistics
Projections
Trends
Studies
Examples
Etc.
Must be cited!
Yellow Card Example
Source #3 pg.773
Two larger organizations strongly opposed prohibition laws. The
Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA) and the
Women's Organization for National Pro hibition Reform (WONPR)
both believed that letting the government decide what an
individual put into their own bodies to drink was taking
government control and regulation too far.³
3.
David E. Kyvig, “Prohibition,” in Encyclopedia of the Great Depression (New York: Macmillan
Reference USA, 2004), 772-773, accessed January 24, 2013, Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Blue Cards
“like the sky-there for everyone.”
Bib Card # ______ Page ________
Basic Factual Information-In your own words
Basic Biographical Information
Basic Event Information
Common knowledge facts you want
to use
This is assumed knowledge on your part and need not be citedunless a direct quote. Likely from your textbook.
Blue Card Example
Source #4 pg.9
1908-Herny Ford introduces the
Model T.
Green Cards
“Go with it!”
Your ideas as you take notes-Your own words.
Thesis?
Questions?
Organization
Interpretation/Significance
Theories
Cause and effect
Reminders to self about specific information cards
Need not be cited-your ideas
Green Card Example
Find out more about how women
were involved in politics during
Prohibition.