- Read one note and add the question, FOR WHAT REASON? 
 - If you cannot think of a REASON, just go on to read the next card.
 - When you do think of a REASON, mark a large X after the FOR WHAT REASON question.
 - After you mark a large X on a card, set that card aside to start a stack of cards with a large X after REASON. 
 - By stacking the X’s now, you will have them together when you are ready to examine your REASONS and choose only a few to write into your paper. 
 - In the next step you will examine your cards marked with an X. 
 - From them you will choose a few REASONS to write on your note cards.
 - Your REASONS:  • must make sense    • must be true    • must not be silly.