MMUF Workshop: Building a Bibliography, Managing Sources, and Notetaking

Besides ensuring the accuracy of your work, careful note-taking helps to avoid inadvertent plagiarism. You can find many concrete, useful recommendations in:

• Chapter 12, "Incorporating Sources," in The Craft of Research. 
• The Emory Libraries guide Citing Your Sources
• The University of Wisconsin Writing Center's handout Acknowledging, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Sources.

In particular, review the sections on note-taking and paraphrasing.

To see how this can impact a scholar's work and reputation, read up on the plagiarism controversy that surrounded the well-regarded historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.