TOPIC 6: TAKING LECTURE NOTES

Why take lecture notes?

1. Promote active listening
2. Promote an accurate record of information
3. Provides an opportunity to interpret, condense and organize information
4. Provides an opportunity for repetition of material.

NOTE-TAKING STRATEGIES

1. Steps in the listening and note-taking:
2. Decide to listen
3. Receive massages
4. Pay attention
5. Select relevant information
6. Interpret information
7. Condense information
8. Organize information
9. Take notes

Note-taking systems:

• THE INFORMAL OUTLINE
• THE BLOCK METHOD
• THE MODIFIED-BLOCK METHOD

In our notes need:

1. Heading

2. Details:

• Facts
• Explanations
• Definitions
• Enumerations
• Examples
• -Anything repeated or spell

3. Anything on:

• Chalkboard
• A PowerPoint slide
• A transparency

4. Drawing, charts, or problems written on the board

5. Conclusion statements

Why you should edit notes?

1. To get an accurate record of information
2. To review both the text and lecture material an integrate the course material
3. To get feedback on your note-taking
4. To organize the information in your notes
5. Prepares your notes for later review by adding recall questions in the margin

How to edit notes?

1. Fill in gaps
2. Check for accurancy
3. Clarify meaning
4. Improve organization
5. Develop recall questions

How to take lecture notes:

5R

CORNELL NOTE TAKING

NOTES:

This section is where you should take your notes during the course of the lecture.

• Use bullets, sentences, shortform

 CUES/KEYWORD:

Questions, main points, visual clues, and other clues that run in your memory write there

• Fill this section right after class

SUMMARY:

Most important points and main ideas write threre.

• Fill this section right after class when you are in the reviewing process.

EXAMPLE OF CORNELL NOTE: