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Organizing & Synthesizing Information: Note Taking: Research Grid

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If you can keep track of a large sheet of paper better than you can keep track of a stack of notecards, maybe this technique will work for you.

Another advantage is that it forces you to take short notes to later put into your own words. That means less of a chance of plagiarizing.

 

Research Grid

This is how a grid might be designed if you are researching hieroglyphics.

HIEROGLYPHICS

SOURCE 1
WORLD BOOK
"hieroglyphics" etc.

 SOURCE 2
Riddle of the Rosetta Stone etc.
 SOURCE 3
The Origin of Languages, etc		 SOURCE 4
Kids Discover Magazine - Ancient Egypt etc.
Where did the term "hieroglyphics" come from?        
Were their any early guesses about what the symbols meant?        
Is there any structure to the language?        
How did the Rosetta Stone guide the translation process?        
How do hieroglyphics fit into the whole process of language development?        

In each of the empty boxes you would take notes that might be used to answer each of your research questions.
The information in the SOURCE boxes should be the complete bibliographic data.
Not every box would be filled in because there might not be any information on a certain question in that source.
In the end, everything in a single row would be combined to answer that question for that row.

 

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