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Tips For Note Taking PDF

This document provides tips for effective note taking. It recommends leaving a wide left margin to add additional information later. Main ideas should be indented separately from important sub-ideas and examples. Notes do not need to be neat, but should focus on capturing content that can be rewritten later. Students should ask questions in class rather than assuming they will understand later when reviewing. Using different colors helps highlight main ideas, examples, and new vocabulary. Developing an abbreviation system can speed up note taking while retaining the essential information. Reviewing and rewriting notes within 24 hours maximizes information retention.

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Tips For Note Taking PDF

This document provides tips for effective note taking. It recommends leaving a wide left margin to add additional information later. Main ideas should be indented separately from important sub-ideas and examples. Notes do not need to be neat, but should focus on capturing content that can be rewritten later. Students should ask questions in class rather than assuming they will understand later when reviewing. Using different colors helps highlight main ideas, examples, and new vocabulary. Developing an abbreviation system can speed up note taking while retaining the essential information. Reviewing and rewriting notes within 24 hours maximizes information retention.

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Tips for Note Taking

Leave a big left-hand margin so you can add any information you
might have missed or that the professor gives out of order. This is
also useful for writing any of your own clever comments that help
you to remember better.

Indent to separate:
 main ideas
 important sub-ideas
 examples or details
You don’t have to make your notes neat and elaborate.
It’s better to focus on the content because you can always
rewrite them later, but you can’t capture meaning that you
missed in the first place.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions in class. You won’t be able to when


you review your notes later. Listen carefully and don’t assume you
will “get it” later when you review.

Use two or more colors to highlight notes or textbooks; one color


for main ideas and another for important examples and details. You
can get a third for new vocabulary too!

Use a system of abbreviations that makes sense to you. Think of as


many as possible to cut down the time you take to record basic
(especially repeated) information.
 Example: use sys of abbrv tht mks sns 2 u. thnk of as mn as
poss 2 cut ↓ time 2 rec basic (+rep) info

Review and rewrite your notes within 24 hours after you take them.
This is the period of time that has the highest retention for
committing something to long-term memory. Repetition is the most
effective way of remembering something. Repetition is the most
effective way of remembering something.

Learning & Academic Resources Department/Providing Pathways to Academic Success

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