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Note Taking

Note-taking involves writing down key points from a lecture or reading in your own words. It helps with concentrating, remembering information, and preparing for exams. Useful notes are concise, use bullets and abbreviations, and focus on important names, dates, and concepts rather than full sentences. Note-making takes additional time to review notes, identify themes, and ask questions. Guidelines for effective note-taking include knowing your purpose, focusing on important ideas, and developing your own shorthand system.

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Note Taking

Note-taking involves writing down key points from a lecture or reading in your own words. It helps with concentrating, remembering information, and preparing for exams. Useful notes are concise, use bullets and abbreviations, and focus on important names, dates, and concepts rather than full sentences. Note-making takes additional time to review notes, identify themes, and ask questions. Guidelines for effective note-taking include knowing your purpose, focusing on important ideas, and developing your own shorthand system.

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NOTE-TAKING 

What is note-taking?
 Note-taking is a process that involves writing or recording what you
hear or read in a descriptive way.
 This is often the first stage of the process of producing effective
notes.
 Taking notes should not distract you from listening intently to what
the speaker is saying.  
 However, it involves listening whilst jotting down key points that will
be important later: 
 in a business meeting this may include action points that you have agreed to
attend to;
 in a lecture this may include new vocabulary or theories that you can
investigate further later.
Why do we need to take note?
 Notes are a useful record of key information, and the sources of that
information.
 Writing notes helps you remember what you heard or read.
 Taking notes helps you to concentrate and listen effectively.
 Selecting what to note down increases your understanding.
 Notes create a resource for exam preparation.
 Notes taken in classes often contain information that can’t be found
elsewhere.
What should useful notes have?
How can we take note? Guidelines
 Before you start taking any notes be clear about why you are attending the talk or meeting.  

 Think about a point is noteworthy before you write it down – do not take notes for the sake of taking notes. 

 Do not write down everything that is said, word-for-word, that would be transcribing, which is an altogether
different skill. 

 Concentrate on the key points, remain alert and attentive and listen to what is being said.

 Write in your own style and use your own words, you don’t need to worry too much about spelling, grammar,
punctuation or neatness as long as you can read your notes later and they make sense to you.  Your personal
note-writing system will evolve and improve with practice.

 Try to use short concise points, single words or phrases or short sentences, use bullet or numbered lists if
necessary.  If you are using a pen and paper then it is easy to add linking lines to join ideas and concepts.

 Write down in full, key information that can’t be shortened: names, contact details, dates, URL’s, references, book
titles, formulas etc.
How can we take note? Guidelines (cont.)
 Use abbreviations to help you – just note what they mean!

 Use underlining, indentation, circle words or phrases, use highlighter pens 

 Use some sort of shorthand system that you will understand later 

 Don’t panic if you miss something.  

 Once the event has finished:

 As soon as possible, after the event, you should review and, where necessary, rework your notes. 

 If possible share and/or compare your notes with a colleague or peer.  

Read more at: https://www.skillsyouneed.com/write/notes-verbal.html


Use Symbols and Abbreviations

1. Common etc. (etcetera) = and the para = paragraph


rest ch. = chapter
e.g. = for example no. = number
info = information diff = different
i.e. = that is C19 = nineteenth
n.b. =note well, important century
p = page (pp = pages)
2. Discipline-Specific These should be whatever is frequently used in your
field of study.
In chemistry: Au for gold, Mg for magnesium.
In the case of quantities and concepts, these are
represented by Greek letters in many fields.
A or a (alpha) B or b (beta)
Use Symbols and Abbreviations (cont.)
3. Personal Develop your own set so that you don’t have to write every word in
full. You can shorten any word that is commonly used in your
lectures.
•Gov = government
•nec = necessary

Work out a system you’ll remember and use it consistently.


Introduce a few symbols and abbreviations at a time to help you
remember them.

4. Acronyms Some abbreviations are so well known and widely used that they
have become acronyms—abbreviations pronounced as words.
For example:
Laser = Light Amplification by Stimulation Emission of Radiation
ABC = Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Symbols for note taking
Use concept maps and diagrams
NOTE-MAKING

 Note-making is an advanced process that involves


 reviewing,
 synthesizing,
 connecting ideas from the lecture or reading and
 presenting the information in a readable, creative way that will stick in your
mind” (Neville, 2006).
 this mean that you have to spend some additional time processing the
information you have collected while it’s still fresh in your mind; annotate,
summarise, identify keywords, themes and topics – record questions that the
notes address or raise.
Exercise 

 Taking notes

 https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/elementary-a2-listening
/taking-notes
 The chemistry of cookies

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=107&v=n6wpNhyreDE&feature=e
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References 

 Note-taking or note-making. SKILLS@LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. University


of Leeds.
 Note-taking. https://www.skillsyouneed.com/write/notes-verbal.html

 Listening Note Taking Strategies. https://student.unsw.edu.au/note-taking-skills

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