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
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