Scribd
Upload
111 views

Cornell Note Taking

The Cornell note taking system provides the perfect opportunity for following through with the 5 R's of notetaking. Jottings in the Recall Column serve as cues for reciting, Reciting and Reviewing. If you spend 10 minutes every week or so in a quick review of these notes, you will retain most of what you have learned.

Uploaded by

Shannon Peterson
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
111 views

Cornell Note Taking

The Cornell note taking system provides the perfect opportunity for following through with the 5 R's of notetaking. Jottings in the Recall Column serve as cues for reciting, Reciting and Reviewing. If you spend 10 minutes every week or so in a quick review of these notes, you will retain most of what you have learned.

Uploaded by

Shannon Peterson
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

The Cornell Note Taking System

Recall Column

------2 1/2”-------- ----------------6”--------------------

Reduce ideas and facts to


concise jottings and
summaries as cues for Record the lecture as fully and as
Reciting, Reviewing, meaningfully as possible.
and Reflecting.

The format provides the perfect opportunity for following through with the 5 R's of note-
taking. Here they are:

1. Record. During the lecture, record in the main column as many meaningful facts and
ideas as you can. Write legibly.

2. Reduce. As soon after as possible, summarize these ideas and facts concisely in the
Recall Column. Summarizing clarifies meanings and relationships, reinforces continuity,
and strengthens memory. Also, it is a way of preparing for examinations gradually and
well ahead of time.

3. Recite. Now cover the column, using only your jottings in the Recall Column as cues
or "flags" to help you recall, say over facts and ideas of the lecture as fully as you can, not
mechanically, but in your own words and with as much appreciation of the meaning as
you can. Then, uncovering your notes, verify what you have said. This procedure helps to
transfer the facts and ideas of your long term memory.

4. Reflect. Reflective students distill their opinions from their notes. They make such
opinions the starting point for their own musings upon the subjects they are studying.
Such musings aid them in making sense out of their courses and academic experiences
by finding relationships among them. Reflective students continually label and index their
experiences and ideas, put them into structures, outlines, summaries, and frames of
reference. They rearrange and file them. Best of all, they have an eye for the vital-for the
essential. Unless ideas are placed in categories, unless they are taken up from time to
time for re-examination, they will become inert and soon forgotten.

5. Review. If you will spend 10 minutes every week or so in a quick review of these notes,
you will retain most of what you have learned, and you will be able to use your knowledge
currently to greater and greater effectiveness.

©Academic Skills Center, Dartmouth College 2001

You might also like