Once you have found something worth retaining, you ll want to paste it into your scrapbook. While online, drag your mouse over the text you want to copy, right-click and select copy. Now switch to your scrapbook and paste. To start the scrapbook, open up a text editor, such as Notepad. I recommend using Notepad rather than a word processor such as Microsoft Word for your scrapbook.
Web pages tend to contain all sorts of fonts, colors, etc.
Text editors simply ignore all this and deal only with text as text, delivering a cleaner, more legible document. In the Paste Special dialog that pops up, select Unformatted Text . Personally, I prefer using Notepad. But wait, you re not done with this entry yet. You have to collect information for your Works Cited page.