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Taking Notes: What We Learn With Pleasure We Never Forget

Taking notes is important for several reasons: 1) It helps you become an active listener and critical thinker by focusing your attention on understanding and analyzing the information. 2) Your notes serve as a file of important information that can be used to study for exams, write papers, and use in more advanced courses. 3) Note-taking facilitates learning by allowing you to stay focused, continuously analyze what you're hearing, and think rapidly. Notes also help you remember the material better over time.

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Taking Notes: What We Learn With Pleasure We Never Forget

Taking notes is important for several reasons: 1) It helps you become an active listener and critical thinker by focusing your attention on understanding and analyzing the information. 2) Your notes serve as a file of important information that can be used to study for exams, write papers, and use in more advanced courses. 3) Note-taking facilitates learning by allowing you to stay focused, continuously analyze what you're hearing, and think rapidly. Notes also help you remember the material better over time.

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Taking Notes

What we learn with pleasure we


never forget.
—Alfred Mercier
Why Take Notes?
• Instructors share important information then make
connections.

• Notes serve as a “file” of information.


▫ preparing for an exam, writing a paper and/or for use in a more
advanced course.

• Helps you become an “active listener” and a “critical


thinker”.
▫ “Passive” listening
 watch a sitcom on television or have a casual conversation with someone.
▫ “Active” listening
 listen carefully to make sure you understand
 learn the information that is being conveyed.
 Facilitates learning, by allowing you to
become an effective learner.
 you will stay more focused
 continuously analyze
 forced to think rapidly

 Notes help you remember information!


 Walter Pauk in How to Study in College (1997) analyzes:
• After lecture: Material forgotten:
• 20 minutes 47%
• 1 day 62%
• 2 days 69%
• 10 weeks 75%
• 15 weeks 95%
Taking Notes in a Lecture

• THE WRONG WAY TO TAKE NOTES


▫ you can’t keep up the pace
▫ Recording ???
Listening for Key Information

• Why is it important?
• How might that information be used in your
class?
• How might the information be used on a test?
• Is this information a basis for other
information?
• Could this information be used as content for an
essay?
• learn to trust your own judgment in taking notes
• Stop Peeping around!
• Listen actively!
Thirteen Hints to Effective Note-Taking
Skills
• Keep a Written Record
▫ 80% of data is lost in within two weeks
▫ Try jotting down maximum information
▫ When in doubt, write!!!
▫ This demarcates students in passing or failing
Sit Where You will be Seen
• Make the physical surrounding feasible to your
clear understanding
• Evaluate your attitude
Do some Advance Reading
• Help yourself buildup concepts
• Better comprehension in organizing notes
• Positive attitude towards studies
• Spelling and reading proficiency
Record Notes Systematically
• Paper size
• Pen
• Loose-leaf binder
• Date
• Use write side of papers
• Write legibly
• ABBREVIATE!
• Pronouncement of assignments
Use an Outline for Notes
I. Man-made pollution is the primary cause of
global warming.
A. Greenhouse gas emissions are widely
identified by the scientific community to be
harmful.
1. The burning of coal and fossil fuels are
the primary releasers of hazardous
greenhouse gases.
Be Alert for Signals
• On Board
• Definitions and Enumerations
• Enumerations amplify relationship of
information; it logically connects the
information
• Some hints on “important” aspects of lecture
• Repetitive information
• Auditory differences during lecture
Examples
• Write ex.
Write Details that Connect
• Especially in Science and Mathematics, details
help connecting information.
• Previews and reviews to logically connect data
• Spaces for transition between two points
Leave some Blank Spaces
• Note-taking partner may help
• Audio recording—a bad idea!
• Don’t stop writing
• Ask Questions
• Take notes During Discussion
• Take Notes right Up to the end of
a class.
• Review your Notes Soon
• Repeated ideas or themes
• Information that’s written down
• Concepts that provide a foundation for other
information
▫ concepts and steps
• Obvious organizational structures
▫ , “I’m going to tell you the four main reasons why
the United States entered World War I.”
• Tangents
▫ don’t have to record any personal stories or
material that’s off the subject.

• Instructions that tell you what’s expected


of you during the course
• Handouts
• Web site content
• Include the date, instructor, and title of the
lecture (textbook chapter, part, or pages)
• Prepare yourself for the reading assignment
• Make outline to understand how the ideas relate
• Paraphrase
▫ Flag them to look the meanings
• Add your own thoughts
Three Styles of Note Taking
• Linear
• Visual
• Voiced
Linear
• These are the notes most people are used to
taking even if it does not appeal to their learning
style.
• Linear notes tend to look like this. They may be
less neat and have bullets and relevant symbols
but they use lots of words and are often done in
phrases or sometimes in sentences.
Linear Notes 1.
Try having a specific template which you follow
for all of your notes. It should include:

1. Module lecturer or text and date.


2. Preparation (a brief statement on what you
want to get out of this lecture/text?)
3. Main theme of lecture or text.
4. Overview of lecture (maybe the lecturer
provides this) or overview of text (a rough
outline of the contents you are using.)
5. Main points made in lecture or text and any
examples or evidence given.
6. Questions raised by lecture or text.
7. References to sources.
Linear Notes 2.
• You could try the Cornell note-taking system
• This template sections your page into four parts.
• Each section is used for something different:

(part 1) This records the module lecturer, lecture or


text and the date.

(part 2) This is where you make the bulk of your


notes.
(part 3) This is for going through, after reading or
the lecture and making key points or questions.
They are referred to as ‘cues’.

(part 4) This is for summarising the page of notes.


This helps you flick through and find relevant
pages at a later date.
Cornell Style of Note-taking
Visual Notes 1.
• This includes anything which appeals to more
visual learners.
• Use colours and size to make things stand out.
• Rather than working in linear format you record
the information on plain paper in any way that
appeals to you – in bubbles, for instance.
• Use doodles and sketches to help you remember
what you have heard or read.
• Turn lengthy text explanations or arguments into
diagrams and charts.
Visual Notes 2.
• Mind Mapping can be an extremely
powerful visual tool.
• Try using Mind Genius or CMAP to record
your notes electronically
• Both techniques move beyond spider
diagrams and aim to colour code and link
information.
• You can include small graphics/doodles to
stimulate memory.
• They can be sometimes called memory
pegs.
• Have a look at the example…
Sample Mind Map 1
Sample Mind Map 2
Voiced (or Audio) Notes 1.
• This is of enormous benefit to reinforce learning
and aids auditory learners

• You can use any piece of technology that


records. It can be as high-tech or as low tech as
you like, it just needs to work and be
unobtrusive.
Voiced (or Audio) Notes 2.
• Lectures and lessons.
• You record the lecture you are at and play it back to
yourself. You can then record your own notes of
what you remember from what you have heard. Or
you could use another note-taking technique; then,
record the final notes for you to listen to.

• Texts.
• You read a text and record your notes as you go
along, chapter to chapter, direct from the text. Or
you could use another note-taking technique; then,
record the final notes for you to listen to.

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