Taking Notes when Writing a Dissertation

3 06 2008

There are a lot of important things that you have to do when writing a dissertation. Or if to be more precise, there is a lot you have to do while preparing to write a dissertation.

As you know, writing a dissertation starts with your collecting of the materials and data. I guess you realize the amounts of various books and articles that you will have to read and analyze before writing a dissertation will be possible.

Do you know how to keep all the information in your head? Definitely it is impossible to remember all the read materials. Thus, it is essential to know the correct ways of taking notes. And this is what we are going to talk about further.

So, this is what we suggest you to do.

First, you can make a card system. It means that for every used book or article you will make a separate card. This card will contain information on the title of a book/article, the author’s name, date of the publication, publisher and so on. This information is necessary for organizing your references.

Second, you can make special bookmarks. If you use this method, you will need sheets of paper, which are going to be the bookmarks. Once you read something important in the book, you will make a bookmark in this place. It should contain a short description of the most significant aspects that you paid attention to.

Finally, you can make a folder with files in your computer, and use this information when writing your work.

Notes will play an important role for your dissertation, and they should be organized properly.


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