If you take your notes on a computer, follow these guidelines:

• Be sure you are very familiar with your word processing program.
• Start each separate note on a new page.
• Place one or more keywords on each page. These words indicate the part of your paper the note refers to.
• Organize each group of pages with the same keywords into a single file.
• The name for that file should be a major section of your paper.
• Some notes may be placed in more than one file.
• If you change the organization of your paper, the search function of your word processor can be used to reorganize your notes.