Taking notes is an important student responsibility during lectures. The key is to focus on capturing main ideas, points, and facts rather than writing down everything. When taking notes, listen for verbal and nonverbal clues from the instructor like repeated ideas or information written on the board. Effective note taking involves including dates, titles, and outlines while writing ideas in your own words. When taking notes from reading, highlight the main points in one color without overcomplicating it. Compiling notes from multiple sources helps with reviewing by typing notes, outlining key points, using question/answer grids, or visual mapping.

1. Taking Notes

2. Taking Notes Types
• Lectures
• Reading assignments

3. Taking Notes in a Lecture
• Taking notes is the students
responsibility during a lecture!
• The Wrong Way to Take Notes:
• Writing everything or Tape recording
• The Right Way to take Notes:
• Taking notes on papers or in a notebook

4. Listening for key info.
In a lecture: your gaol is to capture the main
ideas,points, and facts...
Also, listen and think about:
• Why is the info. important?
• How might that info. be used in your class or in a test?
• Is this info. a basis for other info.?
• Could this info. be used as content for an essay?

5. Verbal and nonverbal clues
• Repeated ideas or themes.
• Information that's written down...
• Concepts that provide a foundation for other info.
• Obvious organizational structures.
• Tangents.
• Instructions that tell you what's expected of you during the course.
• Handouts.
• Websites content.

6. Tips for taking notes
• Include the dates,the title and other related
info. of the lecture.
• Go prepared to your class.
• Take notes in an outline form.
• Write what the instructor says in your own
words.
• Always get the main ideas, and leave blanks
to fill in the details later.

8. Taking Notes on Reading
Assignment
• Guidelines for
highlighting:
Focus on the main point.
Read the whole paragraph then highlight the
important ideas.
Don't complicate highlighting by using many
colors.
Look for textbooks with little or no

9. Making Notes on your Textbook
• If you don't want to write on your textbook. What should you
do?
• Why should students write questions when they listen to a
lecture or in a reading assignments?

10. Compiling your Notes!!
• Methods to create a review sheet:
• Type up your notes from the various sources.( notes
sources?)
• Create an outline of the key points, then write the details.
• Use a two-column grid. One for questions and another for
answers.
• Visual mapping to show the relation between notes.

11. Why taking notes is so
important?