Bringing highlighted points and/or short notes together means extracting ideas from the text. Linking sentences and words, added by supporting examples or explanation can help you build up into a summary. If you want to use notes at a later stage, perhaps for writing a thesis paper, you should make a note of the bibliographical details as mentioned before. This enables you to acknowledge the source of these ideas. Each time you take notes, think about particular perspectives of using them. Then it is important to reorganise notes into a more usable and fuller form, and to internalize and interrogate them. Reorganising notes means completing them and supplementing them with comments and queries. Notes should be revisited at intervals to develop links, introduce new issues and examples, and thus continually reprocess key ideas. Reading and thinking are bound up with writing in your own words. In order to develop the skill of writing in your own words you need to read actively, processing meanings.