Editorial Note : The Demise of the Index Car d Janet F . Asteroff Editor, Outlook Department of Communication, Computing and Technolog y in Education , Teachers Colleg e Columbia Universit y "NEVER WRITE ON BOTH SIDES OF ANYTHING," warned Jacques Barzun an d Henry Graff in their venerable guide to scholarship, The Modern Researcher. Include d in their discussion about how to "adopt some system for creating order" in scholarl y research they evaluated the role of ruled and unruled, bound and unbound index cards and paper, the importance of the uniform size of the materials, the functions o f margins, and the classification of information . But their "both sides" warning was th e only "absolute rule" for the basic technique of the "mechanical side of notetaking . " Photocopiers notwithstanding for Barzun and Graff, as well as for most of us wh o were raised on The Modern Researcher, scholarly work begins with finding the righ t book, article, or information and then copying the relevant material to index card s and other paper forms . I was reminded of the "both sides" rule a short time ago when speaking to a nint h grade
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The demise of the index card
Asteroff, Janet F.
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, Volume 19 (3-4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Apr 1, 1987
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