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Note Taking Tips

Taking notes while you read your sources is an important way to keep track of your questions, thoughts and reactions. 

These are two templates from the Empire State Information Skills Benchmarks you might use to take notes. 
The links are here: http://nycdoe.libguides.com/c.php?g=65915&p=425361 where you can print PDF or editable Word files.

Learning Log for Reflective Note Taking: ​http://nycdoe.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=2322537

Note Taking Tips

This video provides note taking strategies as well.

Organizing your notes: Evernote

Keeping track of your notes is almost as important as doing the research! You might read a source and decide weeks or months later that it is something important in your work. Evernote is one (free) resource you might want to use to keep your notes organized. 
Here is their website: ​https://evernote.com/
Here is a page of instructions about how to get started: ​https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208314458-Quick-start

Below, a tutorial about setting up Evernote for Windows (a Mac version is available here)

Here is an example of how a medical student might use Evernote to keep himself organized.