Taking Notes on Your Research
The best research in the world will not do you any good unless you take notes to help you prepare your speech. Take notes on anything you read or hear that might be usable in your speech. It is better to have too much material to work with than too little. Even if you download your research material, you may find it useful to prepare research cards because they are easy to handle and sort by categories. You will need to prepare both source and information cards for each article or book you might use.
Your source cards should contain standard bibliographical information:
the author’s name, the title of the article or book, the title of the periodical for an article, the place and date of publication for a book, the date of publication for an article, and the page references. You also may wish to include a short summary of the material, information about the author’s qualifications, and any of your own comments or reactions to the material. Use information cards to record facts and figures, examples, or quotations . Use a different card for each item of information you think you might use. Each card should have a heading that describes the information it contains, the source from which the material was taken, and the information itself.
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