Power Notes: Viewpoint Analysis
Power Notes are a way to provide ideas and their supporting
details, in order to make writing and compiling information, organized and easy
to visualize.
Power 1: these are the main ideas, your headings (the
description of your viewpoints).
Power 2: these are the reasons that support your main idea
(details and reasons for power 1s)
Power 3: these are the details that describe why the reason
is provided for the main idea (details, examples and elaboration).
Power 4: sometimes these can be direct quotes that you are
wanting to use to support a detail in Power 3.
So for example, if you were conducting research on whether
Canada should continue to have the monarchy as our head of state, your power
notes may look like:
1. Viewpoint A: Keep the Monarchy
.....2. Don’t mess with tradition
..........3. Keep
everything the same (conservative ideology)
..........3. Royal
assent on a bill is in the Constitution
.....2. Canada will remain a part of the commonwealth
..........3. Allies
with Australia, UK, etc.
.....2. She has no power anyway
..........3. Why worry
about it?
1. Viewpoint B: Remove the Monarchy from Canada’s political structure
.....2. Costs too much money
..........3. Approximately $$ goes into funding/hosting/security for
the monarchy when they visit Canada
..........3. Wealthy land owners that don’t share
2. Doesn’t
provide any real power
..........3. Royal assent on a bill doesn’t mean much (since the queen
doesn’t actually do it herself anyway)
...............4. Book - Real Cost
of the Monarchy, page 8
.....2. Colonialism is a
thing of the past
..........3. We are not a
“people to be ruled” any longer, we are our own country
..........3. Colonialism only further subjugates the people, leading
to feelings of oppression and causing revolutions
...............4. Web source -
www.monarchysucks.com, ¶7
