Idea 2of 3Builds onNo single source settles it
Record as you go
You found the perfect fact. What do you write down?
Today you'll discover
- what to capture the moment you read something
- why memory is not a record
- what a stranger needs to check your work
Think firstYou find exactly the number you needed
You find the number you needed on a website. What do you record beside it?
Decide first, then press Next. Think of a stranger checking your work.
A ring of eight boxes with arrows between them. After a prediction, the communicate box is named, then the collect-data box beside it. The last step asks what is missing from a report that says only 'studies show'.
See the whole ideathe big idea and the key word, in one place
The big idea
Record the source as you read; strangers can then check.
Easy to get wrongMemory is not a record. Pages move, and you will not remember where the number came from. Write the citation at the moment of reading.
Key word
- citation
- the record of a source: author, title, publisher, date and location, so a reader can find and check it
Ready to use it?
- Write a complete citation for a described source, and spot what a given one is missing.