Sub sections:
Reading & summarising
To make sure you understand the information you have collected:
- Read through each source. Take careful notes as you go.
- Write down the relevant points in your own words.
- Read through your summaries to ensure that you are clear regarding the details and implications of what you have read.
 | Note-making & summary writing Read & complete the activities on note-making and summary writing in Academic writing: a practical guide for students. |
The following resources can give you some guidance in selecting and sorting information:
- Study Guides and Strategies: 'Reading Skills' from St Thomas' University, St Paul Minnesota.
- Paraphrasing and summarising: This ASO fact sheet outlines the importance of being able to put others' ideas into your own words. This process encourages synthesis of information and increases your ability to select main ideas and sort through material.
- Critical Thinking on the Web. Tim van Gelder's site.
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Take great notes using paper Look at this site, Geek to Live: Take great notes, on the LifeHacker website.
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Or try Microsoft OneNote, a notetaking application that allows you to take notes, keep all your information in one place and share this information with other users.
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