Transcript Trash `n Treasure Note Method

By Barbara Jansen
Adapted by
Jean Sonntag
Ahoy, Mates
Welcome Aboard
USS Research Ship
Your Route
Stopping points
• Encyclopedias
• Reference books
• Databases
• Internet
Encyclopedias
Reference Books
• Better summary
• Most important
information
• Shorter length
Databases & Subscriptions
EBSCO
NewsBank
netTrekker
Internet
Clues to good information:
• Date – when written
and updated
• Author – person responsible/credentials
• Affiliations – group or organization
• Contact information – email, phone
• Background – verifiable to others
Destination
• Written report
• PowerPoint
• Biography
• Brochure
On the Way
Notes
Short key words
Phrases
Not sentences
Use bullets
Own code words/abbreviations
Your Own Decisions
• Choose key words
• Choose important facts
• Never copy word for word
• Take short cut with notes
• No sentences
• Short phrases
Plagiarism
• Using author’s words or ideas from books
or Internet
• With no credit given
• Rearranging
• Changing some words
• Too time consuming
• Cheating
• Stealing
Trash ‘n Treasure
• Pirate digs for TREASURE
• Tosses dirt, weeds, rocks (TRASH)
• Researcher digs to find answers
(TREASURE)
• Tosses aside unnecessary
words/sentences (TRASH)
• Trash-unusable information
The Researcher
• Take notes using key
words/treasure
• No sentences
• Trash/unusable words
• Use own related words
• Give the source used
• Use quotations for exact author’s
words
All Aboard!
• Skim a paragraph
• Choose treasure/key words, phrases
• Reword them in own words
Example:
Parts of a hurricane from (Hurricanes by Jean Allen c2001)
The center of a hurricane is called the eye. This area is
usually 5 to 20 miles wide. A hurricane’s eye can be as large
as 50 miles wide. The eye of a hurricane has calm winds and
clear skies.
Treasure/Key Words
Parts of a hurricane (from Hurricanes by Jean Allen c2001)
The center of a hurricane is called the eye. This area is
usually 5 to 20 miles wide. A hurricane’s eye can be as large
as 50 miles wide. The eye of a hurricane has calm winds and
clear skies.
Treasure/key words in red
Trash/unusable words in white
The Notes
•Center-eye
•Covers 5-20 mi. wide
•Calm winds
•Clear skies
Just Stick to the Facts
• Author’s own description
• Notes- include treasure/key words
• Rewriting allows your style
Try Another
• Viruses (from Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty by
Joy Masoff c2000)
No doubt about it. Viruses are troublemakers, big time. There
are more than 4,000 of them, and they bring us colds, the mumps,
AIDS, and even some cancers when they invade our bodies. And it’s
hard to figure out a way to combat them, since they’re slippery little
devils—able to mutate slightly, always changing just a little bit—
enough to evade our efforts to outsmart them. How do they do their
dirty work? Let’s get “up close and personal” with a virus!
What is the treasure?
What is the trash?
The Treasure
No doubt about it. Viruses are troublemakers, big time. There are
more than 4,000 of them, and they bring us colds, the mumps, AIDS, and
even some cancers when they invade our bodies. And it’s hard to figure out
a way to combat them, since they’re slippery little devils—able to mutate
slightly, always changing just a little bit—enough to evade our efforts to
outsmart them. How do they do their dirty work? Let’s get “up close and
personal” with a virus!
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The Treasure
Viruses
Makes trouble
4,000 +
Colds, mumps, AIDS, some cancers
Hard to fight them
Keep changing, mutating
Your Turn
• The Common Cold from (Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty by Joy
Masoff c2000)
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So why do we get the “common cold” over and
over (and over)? Because that runny nose and
tingling throat is not caused by just one virus, but
by one of at least 200 very different viruses. So
you’ll never get sick from exactly the same cold
virus twice. Still, even though they’re very
different, when you’re blowing your raw, red nose
for the umpteenth time in a day, it doesn’t feel
very different. Our only lucky break in the war
against viruses comes from the fact that viruses
tend to have trouble surviving in dirt and dust
and can’t live for more than about 48 hours
without a host cell.
You decide on the treasure/key words.
The Treasure
• So why do we get the “common cold” over and over (and over)?
Because that runny nose and tingling throat is not caused by just
one virus, but by one of the least 200 very different viruses. So
you’ll never get sick from exactly the same cold virus twice. Still,
even though they’re very different, when you’re blowing your raw,
red nose for the umpteenth time in a day, it doesn’t feel very
different. Our only lucky break in the war against viruses comes
from the fact that viruses tend to have trouble surviving in dirt and
dust and can’t live for more than about 48 hours without a host cell.
My Notes
• Common cold
• Not caused by just 1 virus
• 200 different viruses
• Never get same virus
• Can’t live in dirt or dust
for more than 48 hrs
Trash ‘n Treasure
• Faster method
• Helps to avoid plagiarism
• Always use own words
• Never copy word for word
• Credit sources
Bon Voyage!
And
Happy
Researching!