To take notes of sources, especially if I am going to use them in my paper, I usually read through the sources and write down or highlight small parts of the passages that I plan to use within my paper. After I do this from all of my sources I can take all of the notes that I have written down and come up with a sort of blueprint as to how I am going to put my paper together and what order all of the paragraphs are going to be in. It makes it somewhat easier to do this when the information I want to use in the paper is already written down in one place so I don’t have to continue to go back and forth to different sources to refer to the notes that I have made.
To avoid plagiarism, I always make sure that my works cited page is in order. Most of the papers that I had to write in high school required MLA format as well as using in-text citations as discussed in the book. These are very helpful, in my opinion, to avoid plagiarism because it allows you to put quotes in your paper and give credit directly after the quote to the person that said it or the document that it came from. Works cited pages are crucial for avoiding plagiarism; however, I have never done a works consulted page before. I could see of this would be helpful in avoiding plagiarism because there would be no way that any sources would be left out of your paper since every site visited or examined has to be included into a works consulted page.
Some people enjoying writing their first drafts of papers by hand but I personally like typing it with all of my sources pulled up on the computer so I can easily move back and forth between my paper and the cited sources so I can add in facts or comments without losing my train of thought. This is one helpful way that I complete my papers and also a way that I take notes when planning out my papers that has worked well for me in the past.
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