Research activity: Processing background information – The Note Sheet

Use:
 Identification, classification and organization of data to be used in the writing of oral
presentations and scientific papers.
 Preparing for examinations.

Components of a note sheet:

 Author
 Title
 Publication data/internet address and date of access:

Gilmor ML, Rouse ST, Levey AL. 1998. Receptor fusion proteins and analysis. In: Ariano
MA, editor. Receptor localization. New York: Wiley-Liss. p 75-90.

Lydon-Rochelle M, Holt VL, Martin DP, Easterling TR (2000) Association between method
of delivery and maternal rehospitalization. JAMA 283: 2411–2416. doi:
10.1001/jama.283.18.2411.

Lewis RM, Mckoy JN, Andrews JC, Jerome RN, Likis FE, et al. (2012) Future research needs
for strategies to reduce cesarean birth in low-risk women. Rockville (Maryland): Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality. Available: http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/
ehc/products/481/1297/FRN22_C-Section_FinalReport_20130107.pdf. Accessed 15
September 2014.

 Author’s ideas:
- Identify and classify ideas; use a code to distinguish between main ideas and
supporting ideas and opposing ideas: numbers, letters, colors, other signs.
- Make summaries and quote significant fragments from the text.
- Always indicate the page where you found the information you chose to record in
your note sheet.

 Reader’s comments:
- Use a code to signal your ideas.

 Theme and subject: these allow the classification of the note sheet in particular
folders.
 Abstract: not the one provided by the author but your own version.
 Keyword index; associate each keyword with the code of the idea/ideas represented by
the said keyword.

 Vocabulary of new words:

Note-taking = actul de a lua notite

To take notes = a lua notite
Note Cards/ Note Sheets = fise de lectura