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Study Skills

Effective Note taking

From Education Corner

• Always include your sources
• http://www.educationcorner.com/note-taking.html

Improving your notetaking

• One key to success
• Helps you remember what

happened in class

• Helps you pay attention during

class

• Helps you recognize where

you need help

• Let’s practice

The marks on the notes

• Use a circle for powerful words and phrases
• Underline words and terms you do not know
• Put a ? In the margin for a question you need to ask– even the next day
• Use an arrow for information you also found in your textbook, or some other

source

Make clear and accurate notes

• Legible
• Accurate
• Detailed

Steps to get ready to take notes

• Prepare for class
• Bring the supplies you need: textbook, notebook, pens/pencils
• You can’t take notes in the air
• Complete your homework prior to class
• Helps you know what the next topic will be
• Use your notes to list questions from last class or homework

Compare your notes

• About once a week
• Definitely two days before a test

*With someone you know takes good notes

• See if either of you missed anything
• Find a “ study buddy” especially for when you might be absent

Min inimize dis istractions

• This allows you to focus on the teacher , the class, and the new

material

Organize your notes

• Each day you should start on a new page
• Put the date at the top
• This helps when studying for a test- the teacher may tell you that the test

covers class material from a certain range of dates

• It lets you recognize when you were absent and need to get notes.
• Add the topic , or chapter title
• A separate notebook

Leave blank space

• At the end of the class
• Allows you to make additions, corrections, and jot down questions

It is impossible to write every word

• Learn how to decide what must go in your notes
• If the teacher puts it on the board it must go in your notes
• Some days will not be lecture /notetaking
• Still put the date, the topic, and what happened
• It is a chronicle , and a reminder
• Some abbreviations , approved by your teacher, are appropriate
• & is appropriate in your notes, but not appropriate in a written assignment or

test

• B4 is acceptable in notes, but not in an essay
• You need to keep track of how you abbreviate

Don’t

• Recopy your notes every night
• Obsess about outline formatting
• Indent for details under a main idea
• Use bullet points
• As we have done in this presentation

Do

• Keep your notes in good order