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Note Taking - Week 2

 

"You’ll probably spend hundreds of hours taking notes. Making them more effective is a direct investment in your success. Think of your notes as a textbook that you create—one that’s more current and more in tune with your learning preferences than any textbook you could buy. "

--Dave Ellis, author of Becoming a Master Student

Why should you develop your note-taking skills? One important reason is that students who take better notes get higher grades. Research has shown a clear relationship between the ability to take notes and success on tests. Most students will find that they need to develop two different types of note-taking skills: recording the most important points in a lecture, and annotating key ideas from a text. See the links below for some time-tested methods of note-taking.

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Sources:

Wong, Linda. Essential Study Skills. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2009.
 
   

 Events

Events: 

Textbook reading strategies workshops in ESSC (date/time TBD)