Taking Notes from Web Pages 

You have 3 days to do research for your project and it is important for you take advantage of that time. This page will help you take notes while you are looking for information. 

Procedure

1. Get out your sheet of lined paper and draw a line down the left-hand side.

2. Next, label the top of your paper  with the bibliography information:  Author, title, date document created, http address, date of visit

3. Skim the reading. Since most articles do not have headers like your textbook you want to look for main ideas.

4. Now start taking notes.

• In the left-hand column, you will write the main idea in a couple words, a short sentence, or a question.
• In the right-hand column you will be summarizing the information from the web page.
• Using bullets or numbers is a way to break up the information.

5. When finished with the topic, draw a horizontal line and start the next topic.