sub culture research paper with field notes
Taking Notes for ResearcH
Sample Bibliography Card
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Peters, Brian M. “Emo Gay Boys and Subculture: Postpunk Queer Youth and (Re)thinking Images of Masculinity.” Journal of LGBT Youth 7.2, vol. 7, no. 2, 2010, pp. 129-146.
For information on MLA citation format, refer to the Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) website at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01.
Take Careful Notes
Have an organized method for taking notes. Note cards or note pages are two effective methods.
If using notecards, write down only 1 piece of information on each notecard. Include the subtopic where that information will belong in your paper.
If you know you will not quote the information in your paper, write it down in your own words in your notes.
If you might quote the information, write down the quote placing quotation marks around the exact words used in the text.
Make sure you note the source number (according to your working bibliography) and page number (unless using an online or database source) in your notes.
Organize Your Notes
Rearrange your notes so that you connect your own ideas with those that you found through your research. NOTE: This is easiest to do if you use note cards or “note pages.”
Sample Notecard
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Fashion
Dress adrogynously because they are individuals “who find [themselves] either negated or rejected” by the mainstream
p. 139
Sample Note Pages
Fashion
“The mods of the millennium: black hair; sweeping, dramatic bangs; heavy eyeliner [“guyliner”], and tailored clothing” (Peters 129).
Dress androgynously because they are individuals “who find [themselves] either negated or rejected” by the mainstream
(Peters 139)
“The art of crafting oneself to be shunned means that the flip side is acceptance within the desired subcultural space” (Peters 139)
Vintage or band shirts, “form-fitting” outfits, skinny jeans, shoes, sneakers or combat boots (Smith)
Music
Evolved out of punk rock, a ”form of refusal” (Hebdige 2)
“We’re not twenty-one / But the sooner we are / The sooner the fun will begin” (Dashboard Confessional)
The hardcore genre emerged out of “a bad economy, inflation, change of administration. [The election in 1980 of Ronald] Reagan was the kind of antithesis or the reaction, a whole new, like a paradigm shift. There was a lot of concern of, you know, what might that mean in terms of all kinds of issues: freedom of speech, repression, and civil liberties, and that was sort of that era.” (American Hardcore)
Avoid Plagiarism
Take careful notes (on note cards, on a computer as “note pages,” or in a notebook)
Make sure you accurately present a writer’s words or ideas.
When taking notes, put the author’s exact words in quotes (so you will know they are a direct quotation). If you are paraphrasing the author’s words, write them in your own words in your notes (so you don’t accidentally use the author’s words without quoting them).
Make sure you write down the source and the page number where you found that idea or quotation.
RULE OF THUMB: If the words or ideas were not generated in your own head, you must credit them in the paper.
Works Cited Page
Your Works Cited page will only include the scholarly sources and literary works you actually used and cited in your paper.
Your works cited page should:
Be in alphabetical order according to the first word (or name) in the citation.
Include the appropriate MLA information according to the type of source used.
Include appropriate punctuation, capitalization, and italicization according to MLA.
Use a hanging indent for each entry.
For information on appropriate MLA format for your Works Cited list, see the following Purdue OWL link for general information: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/05/
Additional information about formatting each type of source can also be found on OWL.