Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Paraphrasing While Listening and Taking Notes
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn to paraphrase a speaker's remarks in the process of your note taking.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Notes, Quotes, and Fact Fragments
Contains plans for a lesson on taking notes that is part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like figuring out what information is relevant and irrelevant, using a variety of sources, and paraphrasing. In...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Nonfiction and Research: The Research Process: Notetaking
This lesson focuses on taking notes for your research project. It explains what to included in your notes and how to write them. It offers a link to The Quality Writing Center: "Creating and Using Outlines" and Study Guides and...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Plagiarism
Use this handout to learn what plagiarism is and specific ways to avoid it. The explanation of "common knowledge" should be particularly useful to students. Although this handout is directed to college students, it is equally applicable...