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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


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Study Skills

Effective Note taking

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From Education Corner

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

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  • Let’s practice
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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

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Make clear and accurate notes

  • Legible
  • Accurate
  • Detailed
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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
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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
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Min inimize dis istractions

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

material

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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
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Leave blank space

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

  • Keep your notes in good order