Note Taking Basics Note taking is an important

Note Taking Basics

Note taking is an important part of academic life. To be successful at note taking, you need to • Improve your listening skills. • Develop your note taking skills. • Be able to use your notes to study.

Like All Skills • Listening and note taking improve ONLY with practice.

Note taking = Dictation Note taking is writing complete ideas; dictation is writing complete sentences.

Examples Dictation: History 1002 meets 2 days a week, from 10: 00 am to 10: 50. Notes: Hist 1002 - 2 d/wk 10 – 10: 50 am

Successful Note taking: Listen for KEY WORDS cau ses FACTO RS of s e g a St nt e m p o l deve techno logy First - costs diff s e c n ere

Use space to show relationships. Use vertical space. 3 keys to green environ 1 - educate public 2 - improve tech. 3 -help incr. demand for recy. ing Use horizontal space. Gas Use -Factors Europe U. S Less More $$ More trains +pub transp. good hwys cheap gas auto ind. oil comp.

Use headings to organize ideas. Gas Use -Factors Europe U. S Less More $$ More trains +pub transp. good hwys cheap gas auto ind. oil comp.

To create headings, use • CAPITAL LETTERS • BOXES • underline • - - indent below the heading

Use symbols and abbreviations. Mr = Mrs w/ pop & % ‹ › # ! w/o x

Note complete ideas, not just random words. • Pop of UNT pop of TWU • 1990 intl st < 2% of UNT st BUT now > 9+%

Get the BIG PICTURE! What’s the speaker’s main point? What does he want you to learn?

In the university- • Develop your own style. • After the lecture, rewrite your notes ASAP (as soon as possible).

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Now let’s change sentences to ideas. . .

Change dictation into notes: Studies on 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

One way to write this info Studies ww literacy rt = almost 80 % world pop over 15 yrs now literate + grtr # of women than bef

Change dictation into notes: UNESCO’s study shows a drop in illiteracy from twentytwo and four-tenths percent of the world population in 1995 to twenty and three tenths in 2000.

One way to write this info UNESCO’s st shows 2000 fr 22. 4% ww pop in ’ 95 to 20. 3% in 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.

Another way to write it. WW literacy rates - almost 80% of ww pop 15+ yrs - literate - more women than bef - illiteracy 1995 22. 4% (ww pop) 2000 20. 3%