On Cornell Notes and the importance of noting down EVERYTHING including the article or book chapter (or book) full citation.

Those of you who have followed me for a time know that I do love taking notes off articles with the Cornell Notes method. I find it a very useful note-taking strategy when you are reading materials (articles, book chapters, books, etc.) Some people use it to take notes during class, but this is not the approach I use.

Anyways.

These are two sets of Cornell Notes I am filing. You will notice that I carefully noted the pages from where I am drawing ideas and direct quotations.

Can you see where I made a mistake? pic.twitter.com/7QKMFCo4ne

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 12, 2022

Of course, my mistake was forgetting to write down the citation for the articles I was reading. This is A BIG MISTAKE. For many reasons, you NEED to keep the full citation of what you read in every medium you use (Cornell Note, Everything Notebook, Index Card, etc.)

What did I do? I Googled the exact quotations and luckily I found the original articles. I have now amended my Cornell Note writing the full citation in red at the top of the page. I also updated the exact page of the quotation (I had read it Online First). pic.twitter.com/9jnwGG1NqC

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 12, 2022

Obviously I needed to find the original articles, which I posted on here:

I did the same with the other article, which I also luckily was able to find.

If you are curious about both articles, I could download them from here: https://t.co/McRXBgiR9j

and https://t.co/tECzVSoIRd

I also recommend numbering the pages and stapling them if necessary.

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 12, 2022

As far as filing systems, I use the same across different analog techniques.

I did the same with the other article, which I also luckily was able to find.

If you are curious about both articles, I could download them from here: https://t.co/McRXBgiR9j

and https://t.co/tECzVSoIRd

I also recommend numbering the pages and stapling them if necessary.

— Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega (@raulpacheco) August 12, 2022

I share a big mistake I made (and ways to correct it) because I think sometimes we learn more from our mistakes than from our successes. Hopefully that will be the case.

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