Using notes adds to your credibility as a speaker. If you depend on a full manuscript to get through your delivery, your listeners might believe you don’t know the content of your speech.

1. Write the subtopic heading of the note at the top of each note card. (
2. Write only one main point on a note card.
3. Only write information directly related to your Statement of Purpose. (
4. Write only essential words, abbreviate when possible.
5. Be accurate: double check direct quotes and statistics.

1. Taking Notes Using Note Cards.
2. Record notes in your own words.
3. Skim the information you are interested in and decide which parts are important before actually taking notes.
4. Write the topic or question at the top left corner of the card.
5. Be accurate.

Source Card: Contains information about the source of information, such as author, title, publisher, copyright date, web address, etc. Note Cards: Contains information about the topic; facts about the topic. Source cards and note cards help you take notes in and organized manner.

Although it may seem tedious to give each note card a topic name, it serves two purposes: It keeps you focused in your research. You will be less likely to write down unnecessary information (facts that are not related to your topic) if you are careful to write down the topic for every card.

Let’s get into it.

1. Make Your Own Flash Cards.
2. Mix Pictures and Words.
3. Use Mnemonic Devices to Create Mental Connections.
4. Write Only One Question Per Card.
5. Break Complex Concepts Into Multiple Questions.
6. Say Your Answers Out Loud When Studying.
7. Study Your Flash Cards in Both Directions.

If you write too much information on a legal pad it can become overwhelming, so some speakers tend to use a notecard to remember the highlights of their speech and prep that way.

10 note cards

Use 3 x 5 index cards, one fact or idea per card. This way related ideas from different sources can be easily grouped together or rearranged. On each index card, be sure to note the source, including the volume number (if there is one) and the page number.

Your notecards should include the following information: Section Title, Source Number, and 1 Fact or Piece of Information from your source. Only 1 fact per card. This should match the source card number. Finally, you are ready to write down a fact or piece of information on your Notecard.

one idea

The major parts of a research paper are abstract,Introduction,review of literature,research methods,findings and analysis,discussion,limitations,future scope and references.

Chronological order works best when many of your ideas or subtopics are events.

: of, relating to, or arranged in or according to the order of time chronological tables of American history His art is arranged in chronological order. also : reckoned in units of time chronological age.

The definition of chronological is arranged in the order it happened. An example of chronological is a biography that starts in 1920 and goes through 1997.

This means that the events in a story happen in order from beginning to end. Writing in chronological order helps the reader follow what is happening in a story. For example, if a woman in a story wants to prepare for an exam, she will first go to class, then study, then take the exam.