- 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.