How to Write Note Cards for Research Papers

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How to Write Note Cardsfor Research Papers

• The Research Paper

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What is a Note Card?

• A note card contains information from the sources
  you plan to use (Citations)
• Quotation
• Paraphrase
• A note card also contains
• The source on the upper right hand corner
• The topic or subtopic on the top line
• Quotation or paraphrase on the bottom left hand
  corner.
• Each paragraph (excluding introduction and
  conclusion should contain at least one citation.
  

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Witches Words and Macbeth
Topic or subtopic
Source
George Walton Williams, in a recent article, has
shown the importance of verbal echo as a device
in Macbeth by demonstrating the extent to which
the language of the Witches (their vocabulary and
speech rhythms) invades and infects that of
Macbeths and Banquos
Quotation
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Witches Words and Macbeth
Topic or subtopic
Source
The witches repeated several key words and
phrases like hail and foul is fair and fair is
foul which remained etched in Macbeths head as
he ambitiously sought to gain power to become
Scotlands next king.
Paraphrase and Quotation
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Witches Words and Macbeth
Topic or subtopic
Source
"All hail" is a common greeting in the New
Testament. In Matthew 26.49, Judas prepares to
betray Jesus when he approaches Jesus, saying,
"Hail Master." The Witches greet Macbeth in a
similar fashion, and, as Judas betrayed Jesus, so
do the Witches betray Macbeth.
Quotation
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Assignment

• Create Source cards for the following sources
  used in the class notes. All information must be
  unscrambled and written in the correct order
• Time for Such a Word pages 153-9, Shakespeare
  Survey, George Walton Williams Volume 47, no 3,
  1993
• Your classroom textbook (see class notes)
• URL http//shakespeare.about.com/od/macbethglossa
  ry/g/allhail.htm
• All Hail Author Amanada Mabillard. Date of
  access 12 December, Date of web site 2007