Chapter 6 Summary

Chapter 6 focuses on how and why you should take notes, as well as organizing information. Good ways to manage and save the information you research are also talked about. Notes are very important as references to your writing. Other information that you gather should be organized as well on your research project. Organizing them accordingly and making sure you keep them saved is important. Some thought on how to do this in Chapter 6 would be to save files or information on your computer, thumb drive, e-mail, phone, or even using a service like google docs. Saving web pages to your favorites in specific folders is also a good way to organize your information. The second part of Chapter 6 talks about how and why you should take notes. Using quotations, paraphrasing, and summarizing all helps keep the notes in clean detail and easy to read fashion. The last part of Chapter 6 talks about creating a working bibliography.