Taking notes for research
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2024
- Taking notes for research projects and how I do it!
Things I use:
Moleskine A5 soft-bound lined notebook
Moleskin A5 jotter
Moleskin A4 Professional notebook
OneNote
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Starting my master's thesis and this blew my mind!! Thank you so much for sharing your organization system! This video is extremely helpful!
You are very inspiring! I thought of you this week when a math lecture veered into suggesting how Euclid worked with parabolas, but also alluded to ordered pairs which is Descartes, a thousand years later. I knew Ellie would look it up! So I did! And I walked out of a used book store with all thirteen volumes of Euclid's "Elements" in translation. I picked the translation because it is famous and also because the guy toiled away at the Department of National Debt in Britain for years in the 1920's but spent his free time translating Euclid into these marvelous editions. Will be using your note-taking information as I take on these tomes.
Ellie, this is wonderful! I am writing my literature review for my dissertation proposal, and this presentation is truly helpful. I love handwriting notes and was trying to figure out how to integrate handwritten notes with those taken in Zotero and with OneNote. The coding system you use and the digitizing process is exactly what I needed to learn. Thank you.
I loved it. Thank you Ellie.
This was so extremely helpful! thank you.
I am SO in love with your channel! I am a Classics PhD Student and I came into it looking for ideas to improve my research. I work on Greek Religion as well! Your channel is amazing, thank you so much. And if you like, we could exchange experiences
Hi Ellie, I just recently stumbled over your channel, and I absolutely love it. I am currently writing my dissertation as well as teaching and taking part in administration, and I wish I would have had someone explain to me these note-taking techniques when I first started writing. Personally, I handwrite my notes in notebooks as well and I digitize using a program called Citavi as it is designed specifically for this purpose. Maybe it would come in useful for you too!
Oh thanks for your comment, and your kind words! And thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely look into it.
Very useful--thanks!
really useful thank you Ellie
You are so creative! Love this stuff, but am skeptical about my ability to maintain a handwritten notebook :S Although I do really want to try! Not sure if you've mentioned in another video, but do you read from hard copy or digital where possible? And do you mark up those documents in any way, or just note taking and then never look at the original article (unless notes lack clarity?) Thanks!
+Nimbus Staniland It's absolutely to do it digitally! If that works for you. I sometimes make up documents (in fact, I tend to mark up articles etc digitally where possible), and sometimes don't. Even where I do, I try to ensure that I don't need the article when going over the notes.
Hi Ellie,
I just started watching your videos and I have to say simply awesome. I just started again to finish up my Master's. This is my 2nd masters however, it has been 10 years. So my question is, is this method used strictly for your research papers? Or do you take notes from your textbooks for each class with this method as well? I will be using this method for my papers and thesis however I was unsure how to do this for textbooks. I am using a binder syaytem but it is really a bulky system. I was just wondering how you do notes for text book work. Thanks so much
Hi Jayson! It's been quite a while since I took classes (I did a research MA as well, so haven't done classes since my undergrad). I imagine it would work really well for class note-taking as well, though - the two (research and learning) are, in my mind, so closely interwoven. I think you'd really have to stay on top of typing the notes up, but that would also give you the secondary benefit of reviewing as you go. I think what I'd probably do is have a (small - A5, probably LT1917) notebook for each class, and at the end of each week would type up my notes into a more organised OneNote folder. I might think about this a little bit more, though. If you do integrate any of my ideas in your classes, I'd be interested to hear how you get on.
Great video thanks!
Thanks 🌹
Hi Ellie! Your video is quite timely. Did your ever use a literature matrix? What are your thoughts on it.
Good
Can you tell me which program you use to digitize your text? Do you use regular Microsoft Office?
what kind of software do you use when you type notes on computer?
Do you have any tips on good programs to use for digitalizing the notes? :)
Hi Viola - I hand type my notes into OneNote - I've never tried to automatically digitise them. I don't think that would fit into my process!
Evernote is great! I also know students in my program who use the Rocketbook Everlast notebook, which is not only cheaper than Evernote (it's only about $30 at Staples and you need only buy one), but environmentally friendly and easy to use! I know this comment is old, but I'm replying just in case anyone else was wondering.
When do you type up your notes? Once a notebook is full??
I tend to be a bit more haphazard than that. I kind of type them up as I need them or as I find I need to refresh my memory about them. I keep tabs by marking in the index which notes have been typed up and which haven't.
Summary:
*A tiny book for notes.
*The bigger book with a good layout for the rest of the stuff.
*Referencing, lots of referencing, cross referencing.
- Page numbers
*WHATS THE DIGITIZE THING?