The document provides guidance on taking notes for an MLA research paper. It instructs students to create an outline with main topics, subtopics, and source details. Notes should be taken on a Google Doc and differentiate between direct quotes and paraphrases while recording publication information. The outline format uses Roman numerals for main topics and capital letters and Arabic numerals for subtopics and details. Students are warned against plagiarism and taught how to properly quote, paraphrase, summarize, and cite sources in-text and parenthetically.