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Note-Taking: Taking Lecture Notes Use Your Pen

The document provides tips for effective note-taking during lectures. It recommends (1) taking specific, concrete notes that focus on key ideas rather than verbatim copying, (2) listening for clues about important information from the lecturer, and (3) getting involved in the lecture by sitting up front and comparing notes with other students.

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Note-Taking: Taking Lecture Notes Use Your Pen

The document provides tips for effective note-taking during lectures. It recommends (1) taking specific, concrete notes that focus on key ideas rather than verbatim copying, (2) listening for clues about important information from the lecturer, and (3) getting involved in the lecture by sitting up front and comparing notes with other students.

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Note-Taking: Taking Lecture Notes

Use your Pen

1. Lecture notes should be as specific and concrete as possible. Be


precise about the lecturers key ideas. It makes them easier to
understand, remember and apply.
2. Take selective notes. Dont try to copy information verbatim. Write
down ideas from the lectures that are most salient. If you get stuck
or desperate, write down single cue words to help remind you of the
topic, then go back and fill in your blanks later.
3. Focus on lecture information that ties together or explains
important themes. Compare and contrast to find relationships and to
create mental filing systems to organize information.

Use your Ears


1. Develop the intention to learn while you are in a lecture. Youve
made the effort and taken the time to come to the lecture. Make the
most of your time by learning the information as you receive it. The
more information you understand, the less youll have to memorize.
2. Listen for clues to what is important information in the lecture.

Use your Body


1. Get involved in the ideas and information being presented. Rather
than thinking of yourself as attending (in the passive sense) a
lecture, think in terms of participating in the lecture (the way you
would participate in a conversation.)
2. Sit up front to hear better, see better, avoid distractions.
3. Compare notes with fellow students to get their strategies for good
note- taking.

Use your Mind


1. Take a minute before class to anticipate what the instructor is likely
to present based on:
The syllabus
What has been presented in the course thus far
A quick review of your notes from the last lecture
A quick glance at the readings assigned for the current class
2. What is the relationship between information presented in lecture
and information presented in the readings, in section, in the written
work, in the problems assigned?
3. Anticipate the ways you may be tested on material presented in
lecture. Give yourself a pre-test to help you identify areas of strength
and diagnose areas of weakness.

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