TAKING LECTURE NOTES

Lecture : Dr. Shaari Bin Daud

Taking Effective Notes

What is taking note?

👉 Taking note is writing down the keywords and read it again with our own words that we can easily understand.

Do you know why do we have to take notes?

👉 Helps us to pay attention to the class

👉 Helps us to improve our memory

👉 Helps  us to study effectively

👉 Helps us to take ownership of an ideas

👉 Helps us engage our senses

👉 Helps us organize ourself

👉 Helps us process data and information

Why do we review notes after class?

▪ We lose 80% of what we hear if it is not reviewed within a few hours. 

▪ Identify any question for peers so that in the next class, you can easily ask your lecturer. 

▪ You doesn't have enough time to absorb all the information given in the class.

How do we take notes efficiently?

▪ Put the date and label to your notes.

▪ Give yourself some space to write.

▪ Use abbreviations and symbols.

▪ Use an outline to show the main ideas, support and examples.

▪ Use your own word that you can uderstand easily.

While taking notes:

–Ask questions and discuss if its permitted

•If not, jot questions in your notes

•Seek out meaning

HOW DO WE REVIEW OUR NOTES AFTER THE CLASS:

▪ Review notes along with the book

▪ Create our own examples

▪ Discuss and compare notes with others

▪ Re-write notes

▪ Practise those skills you wish to develop

▪ Ask profesor for clarification 

MOOD OF LECTURE

🌹 Observe your lecturer mood everytime they enter the class

🌹 You have to be prepare for the  topic that you will learn with your lecturer by review and read the topic before the class start.

🌹 Make sure you have already finish up your outside assignment before the class started.

🌹 Brings the right materials to the lecturer.

KEY ACTION TO NOTES AS YOU OBSERVE YOUR INSTRUCTOR/LECTURER

•Be alert to repetition

 - When an instructor repeats a specific point, make a note of it.

•Watch the board or overhead projector

•If an instructor writes something down, the material is important

•Notice the instructor's interest level

• If the instructor is excited about something, it is likely to be on a exam

•Let go of judgements about lecture styles

• Don't let your attitude about an instructor's style get in the way of your education

Cornell notes taking

Two column method:

OUTLINING

MAPPING METHODS

SENTENCE METHOD