- Pick up your whole stack of notes. 
- Read the first note and add the question, A DEFINITION? 
- For most notes you will not need a DEFINITION, but when you do need a DEFINITION, mark an X on your card, next to the A DEFINITION question. 
- Put cards with an X in a stack by themselves. 
- When you have read each card, pick up your whole stack of cards marked with an X. 
- Again read and question each note. 
- Choose 2-4 DEFINITIONS to include for your readers. 
- On your chosen cards circle the word DEFINITION? 
- On the back side write your word and its DEFINITION. 
- Later, when you write your report, the circled WORD and DEFINITION will remind you to turn your card over and to write your DEFINITION into your report.