Take Better Notes Tomas Rivera Center for Student

Take Better Notes Tomas Rivera Center for Student Success

WHY TAKE NOTES? • Taking notes helps students to concentrate in class. • Taking notes develops a sense of listening, allowing the reader to recognize main ideas. • Makes student an active part of the learning process rather than a passive listener. • Helps prepare for the exams, quizzes.

WHY TAKE NOTES? • Notes often contain information that generally cannot be found else where (i. e textbooks). • Notes are often a valuable clue for what instructor or writer think is important.

Tips for Reading

Detailed reading • Detailed reading is a close analysis of a text. • Steps to Read the Article • Look at the structure of the article (most scientific articles follow the same specific format) – Abstract (summary of the whole article) – Introduction (why they did the research) – Methodology (how they did the research) – Results (what happened) – Discussion (what the results mean) – Conclusion (what they learned) – References (whose research they read)

Detailed reading • Read the abstract and conclusion first (these have the main points) • If you find anything in the abstract or conclusion that is important for your paper, search for the information • If you need more information, then read through whole sections (usually discussion or results section

TAKING NOTES • To write a little faster use abbreviations & symbols to record the information. W/ with W/O without p. Page < less than b/4 before = equals % percent Vs versus C/ocare of