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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. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Note Taking Basics

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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.

Note taking is an important part of

academic life.

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Like All Skills

•Listening and note taking improve ONLY

with practice.

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Note taking = Dictation

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

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Dictation:

Examples

History 1002 meets 2 days a week, from 10:00 am to 10:50.

Hist 1002 - 2 d/wk 10 – 10:50 am

Notes:

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Successful Note taking:Listen for KEY WORDS

causes

FACTORS

differencestechnology

First - costs

Stages of deve

lopment

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Use space to show relationships.

3 keys to green environ

1- educate public

2- improve tech.

3-help incr. demand for recy.ing

Gas Use -Factors

Europe U.S

Less good hwysMore $$ cheap gasMore trains auto ind.+pub transp. oil comp.

Use vertical space. Use horizontal space.

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Use headings to

organize ideas.

Gas Use -Factors

Europe U.S

Less good hwys

More $$ cheap gas

More trains auto ind.

+pub transp. oil comp.

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To create headings, use -

• CAPITAL LETTERS

• BOXES

• underline

• - - indent below the heading

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Use symbols and abbreviations.

Mr = ! Mrs %

w/ ‹

pop ›

& # w/o x

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Note complete ideas, not just

random words. • Pop of UNT pop of TWU

• 1990 intl st < 2% of UNT st

BUT now > 9+%

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Get the BIG PICTURE!

What’s the speaker’s main point?What does he want you to learn?

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In the university--

•Develop your own style.

•After the lecture, rewrite your notes ASAP (as soon as possible).

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One More Point

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Now let’s change sentences to ideas . . .

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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

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One way to write this info

Studies ww literacy rt = almost 80 % world pop over 15 yrs now literate

+ grtr # of women than bef

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Change dictation into notes:

UNESCO’s study shows a drop in illiteracy from twenty-two and four-tenths percent of the world population in 1995 to twenty and three tenths in 2000.

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One way to write this info

UNESCO’s st shows fr 22.4% ww pop in ’95 to 20.3% in 2000

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.

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Another way to write it.

WW literacy rates

- almost 80% of ww pop 15+ yrs - literate

- more women than bef

- illiteracy 1995 2000 22.4% (ww pop) 20.3%

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Remember

Use•Key words•Space•Headings•Abbreviations and symbols•Complete ideas•Quantity!

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Remember

•Get the big picture!

•Rewrite your notes.

•Develop your own style and

Practice, practice, practice.