Taking Lecture Notes
Why take lecture notes :
- Promote active listening
- Provides an accurate record of information
- Provides an opportunity to interpret, condense and organize information
- Provides an oportunity for repitition of the material
How to take lecture notes?
- Prepare before taking notes
- read the text assignment before class
- build up some background about the topic
- have some idea what lecture is about
- identify main ideas of the lecture and organize your notes easier
- be familiar with the keywords
- Become active listener
- decide what you want to listen
- focus your attention physically by setting up and making eye contact with the speaker
- listen for the main points and related details and take notes
Effective Note-Taking System
Cornell Method
The Cornell Notes System (also Cornell note-taking system, Cornell method or Cornell way) is a note-taking system devised in the 1940s by Walter Pauk, an education professor at Cornell University. Pauk advocated its use in his best-selling book How to Study in College.
Reviewing Notes :
- your notes
- from the headings
- recall questions
- talk about infomation with others
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