Lectures and Note-Taking

Dirt Skills

Skill Bir: Infer

•Understand lecturer as s/he says it

•Cannot stop lecturer

•Not recognise words

Try to infer from context

Not always able to

Failure might discourage

Concentrate on most important points

Skill Iki: Main Points

Title important information

Students should study carefully

Good lecturer signals important points

Lecturer Colloquial style

“crunch”

“get it down”

Not helpful to international student

ISs have to get used to style

Lecturers give indirect signals

• pause

• slow speaking

• loud speaking

• intonation range

• combination

Skill Uch: Write down

• abbreviate

• max info words

• one point per line

Finding time to write

Student may miss important point

Connectives guide student

• moreover, furthermore, also etc. indicate argument is proceeding

• however, on the other hand, nevertheless, usually new or unexpected info following

Skill Dirt: Connec-tions between points

Visual presentations

• spacing

• underlining

• conventional symbols

• numbering points