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The purpose of note-taking is simple: to help you study better and more quickly. This means your notes don’t have to contain everything, they have to contain the most important things.
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our focus while taking notes should be two-fold. First, what’s new to you?
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Anything you know you know you can leave out of your note
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what’s relevant? What information is most likely to be of use later, whether on a test, in an essay, or in completing a project? Focus on points that directly relate to or illustrate your reading (which means you’ll have to have actually done the reading…)
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- Theories: Any statement of a theory should be recorded — theories are the main points of most classes.
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- Definitions: Like theories, these are the main points and, unless you are positive you already know the definition of a term, should be written down. Keep in mind that many fields use everyday words in ways that are unfamiliar to us.
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- Images and exercises: Whenever an image is used to illustrate a point, or when an in-class exercise is performed, a few words are in order to record the experience. Obviously it’s overkill to describe every tiny detail, but a short description of a painting or a short statement about what the class did should be enough to remind you and help reconstruct the experience.
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Pay attention to other student’s comments, too — try to capture at least the gist of comments that add to your understanding.
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ut the bottom line is that your system has to reflect the way you think. The problem is, most students haven’t given much thought to the way they think
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The purpose of note-taking is simple: to help you study better and more quickly. This means your notes don’t have to contain everything, they have to contain the most important things
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what’s new to you
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what’s relevant
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Dates of events: Dates allow you to a) create a chronology, putting things in order according to when they happened, and b) understand the context of an event. For instance,
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Names of people
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Arguments and debates:
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John LeMasneyNote-taking is one of those skills that rarely gets taught. Teachers and professors assume either that taking good notes comes naturally or that someone else
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Rei G.Trying to get every last fact and figure down like that leaves no room for thinking about what you’re writing and how it fits together.
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Jennifer DormanNote-taking is one of those skills that rarely gets taught. Teachers and professors assume either that taking good notes comes naturally or that someone else must have already taught students how to take notes. Then we sit around and complain that our students don’t know how to take notes.
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teruteru tarouNote-taking is one of those skills that rarely gets taught. Teachers and professors assume either that taking good notes comes naturally or that someone else
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Anything you know you know you can leave out of your notes.
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Focus on points that directly relate to or illustrate your reading
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Not only do good notes help us recall facts and ideas we may have forgotten, the act of writing things down helps many of us to remember them better in the first place.
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One of the reasons people have trouble taking effective notes is that they’re not really sure what notes are for.
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Note-Taking Techniques
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Fred WoodbridgeA well-rounded explanation of the reasons for taking notes, what information to record and how to use the information contained in the notes afterwards. Excellent.
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