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Note Taking Skills
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Note Taking Skills
Text Books and Journal Articles
Why should I take notes from texts?
• Good notes can reduce 20-30 pages of text to 3-4 pages of notes.
• The notes are mostly in your own words, they are familiar and easy to understand.
• Reviewing your notes will alert you to points that you don’t yet fully understand & guide you to extra reading.
• Organization of your notes (major and minor topics) will help you anticipate exam questions.
• Make it easier for you to write your responses to exam questions.
Why should I take notes from texts?
• For graduate school, you may need to have some tests. Thus having good set of notes for each course can be invaluable resource for studying.
How do I take notes?• Find out what you are expected to cover in each course.
Whether they are text books or other readings? Observe the dates of each material to be covered.
• It can be boring but you should need to read it slowly to understand.
• But, if you are reading the text book for the first time, it is better to first skim the text. Then read slowly…
✴Headings
✴Opening sentence
How do I take notes?• While you are reading, you should
be active.
✴Constantly check if you understand or not.
✴Use colored markers to highlight important ideas.
How do I take notes?• A highly recommended techniques for studying textbook
material is SQ5R or PQ5RSURVEY/PREVIEW
QUESTION
READ
RECORD
RECIDE
REVIEW
REFLECT
How do I take notes?• A highly recommended techniques for studying textbook
material is SQ5R or PQ5R
SURVEY/PREVIEW
Read the title and understand what it means.
Look at the table of contents.
Read the headings/subheadings.
Note the materials that is emphasized/grasp the outline.
How do I take notes?• A highly recommended techniques for studying textbook
material is SQ5R or PQ5R
QUESTION
Use the headings and try to formulate questions about what they might mean.
What is it attempting to do?
What approach does it follow?
Why is it important?
How do I take notes?• A highly recommended techniques for studying textbook
material is SQ5R or PQ5R
READ
Read the material.
Read the material the second time and highlight important points.
How do I take notes?• A highly recommended techniques for studying textbook
material is SQ5R or PQ5R
RECORD
Take notes related to the parts that you highlighted.
Record the important points. (use different colors)
While recording, use your own words. If you do it clearly, you will have a set of notes to study later.
Be careful about the definitions, you can use quotation (!!!!)
How do I take notes?• A highly recommended techniques for studying textbook
material is SQ5R or PQ5R
RECITE
Try to say yourself what you have read.
Try to you answer the questions from memory.
How do I take notes?• A highly recommended techniques for studying textbook
material is SQ5R or PQ5R
REVIEW
Review your notes to make sure that they are clear. At the end of each section you can write a short summary of it.
How do I take notes?• A highly recommended techniques for studying textbook
material is SQ5R or PQ5R
REFLECT
Think about examples and applications.
How do I take notes?• Concept Mapping
Lectures
Why should I take notes?
• In university, it is your responsibility to create a record of what happens in the lecture.
• You will not remember all the things taht was said.
• Act of taking notes help you to concentrate the lecture.
How should I take notes?
• Prepare for each lecture.
✴Check the course outline to find out the topic to be covered.
✴Review the material form the previous class and read ahead in your textbook, take notes related to materials to be covered in class.
✴Have questions in mind that may be answered in the lecture.
How should I take notes?
• To enhance your ability to concentrate, sit nearer the front than back.
• Avoid eating or drinking in class.
• Try to grasp in which the lecturer has organized the material. Be alert on repetitions of the statements, change in voice emphasis…
How should I take notes?
• Take brief notes in the lectures.
• Do not try to write every word that is said.
• Listen carefully, understand what is said, record the main ideas and important details and facts, especially if they are not in the text.
• Develop a system of abbreviations.
How should I take notes?• Develop a system of abbreviations.
+, & for and, plus= for equals# for numberX for times
< for less than, smaller, fewer> for more than, greater, larger
w/ for withw/o for withoutw/in for within
How should I take notes?• If an idea is important mark it with
circle, star etc…
• Try to write down with your own words rather than writing word by word.
• You may use the Cornell System.
• Leave space btw main points.
• Concept mapping
