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Note taking basics
This document provides tips for effective note taking. It recommends practicing note taking skills daily, as listening and note taking only improve with practice. Successful note taking involves listening for key words and writing complete ideas rather than sentences. Notes should use spacing, headings, abbreviations and symbols to organize information and show relationships between ideas. The overall goal is to understand the main points and big picture of the material in a way that supports effective studying from one's notes.
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Note taking basics
- 1. Note Taking Basics ASC TamaraTaylor Fall 2 2002 Intensive English Language Institute University of North Texas Denton, Texas USA
- 2. To be successfulat note taking, you need to • Improve your listening skills. • Develop your note taking skills. • Be able to use your notes to study. Note taking is an important part of academic life.
- 3. Like All Skills •Practiceevery day for 5-10 minutes. •Listening and note taking improve ONLY with practice.
- 4. Note taking =Dictation Note taking is writing complete ideas; dictation is writing complete sentences.
- 5. Dictation: Examples History 1002 meets2 days a week, from 10:00 am to 10:50. Hist 1002 - 2 d/wk 10 – 10:50 am Notes:
- 6. Successful Note taking: Listenfor KEY WORDS causes FACTORS differencestechnology First - costs Stages of development
- 7. Successful Note taking: 3 keysto green environ 1- educate public 2- improve tech. 3-help incr. demand for recy.ing Three keys to green environment – educate public, improve techno., and help increase demand for recycling. Use space. Move your hand.
- 8. Use space toshow relationships. 3 keys to green environ 1- educate public 2- improve tech. 3-help incr. demand for recy.ing Gas Use -Factors Europe U.S Less good hwys More $$ cheap gas More trains auto ind. +pub transp. oil comp. Use vertical space. Use horizontal space.
- 9. Use headings to organizeideas. Gas Use -Factors Europe U.S Less good hwys More $$ cheap gas More trains auto ind. +pub transp. oil comp.
- 10. To create headings, use- • CAPITAL LETTERS • BOXES • underline • - - indent below the heading
- 11. Use symbols and abbreviations. Mr= ! Mrs % w/ ‹ pop › & # ≅ w/o x
- 12. Note complete ideas, notjust random words. • Pop of UNT pop of TWU • 1990 intl st < 2% of UNT st BUT now > 9+%
- 13. Get the BIG PICTURE! What’sthe speaker’s main point? What does he want you to learn?
- 14. In the university-- •Developyour own style. •After the lecture, rewrite your notes ASAP (as soon as possible).
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- 16. Now let’s change sentencesto ideas . . .
- 17. Change dictation into notes: Studieson worldwide literacy* rates show that almost 80 percent of the world’s population over the age of 15 is now literate. This includes more women than ever before. *Literacy = ability to read
- 18. One way towrite this info Studies ww literacy rt = almost 80 % world pop over 15 yrs now literate + grtr # of women than bef
- 19. Change dictation into notes: UNESCO’sstudy shows a drop in illiteracy from twenty- two and four-tenths percent of the world population in 1995 to twenty and three tenths in 2000.
- 20. One way towrite this info UNESCO’s st shows fr 22.4% ww pop in ’95 to 20.3% in 2000 What important information is missing? What is the decrease in? The LITERACY rate INCREASED – the drop was in the number of people who CANNOT read – the ILLITERACY rate dropped.
- 21. Another way towrite it. WW literacy rates - almost 80% of ww pop 15+ yrs - literate - more women than bef - illiteracy 1995 2000 22.4% (ww pop) 20.3%
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- 23. Remember •Get the bigpicture! •Rewrite your notes. •Develop your own style and Practice, practice, practice.