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Effective Study Skills: Note-Taking and Outlining Techniques

Discover the importance of note-taking and outlining in improving study skills. Learn how to create meaningful and organized outlines, and take good notes for better recall.

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Effective Study Skills: Note-Taking and Outlining Techniques

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  1. Overview Chapter 14 - 15

  2. The more writing, the better the recall Next week This week

  3. Chapter 15 • LEARNING PINCIPLE: You remember better if it is • meaningful • organized – detect a pattern

  4. Take good notes for Thursday’s ACTIVITY Definition?

  5. Main Idea is not in OUTLINE OUTLINE uses indentation to show more important and less important ideas

  6. Take notes! Types of Outlines III. A. 1. • Simple indents • bullets

  7. Example of Informal Outline

  8. How to Outline

  9. p 321 Make an informal outline for this reading

  10. Outline • In some cases, gossip is unethical • 1. When it reveals info you promised to keep secret • EXCEPTION: if impossible to keep the secret (suicide thoughts) then tell only those who MUST know • 2. When it invades the privacy that everyone has the right to expect • 3 when it is known to be false and still passed on to others

  11. Take good notes for Thursday’s ACTIVITY Definition?

  12. In English classes Identify the source and author in your introductory statement. In Chapter 15 of Kathleen McWhorter’s College Reading, three techniques for improving study skills are mentioned.

  13. Summarize this paragraph

  14. Summary Prolonged unemployment creates psychological problems that lead to more problems getting a job. Negative feelings of worthlessness over not finding a job lessen chances for finding employment. Either people get so depressed that they stop looking for work or they self-sabotage by appearing hopeless during interviews.

  15. Creating a Map

  16. Enumeration

  17. Creative

  18. HOMEWORK: Go to p 355 and evaluate the following graphic organizers. 15-4 Enumeration (would be Time sequence if arrows showed process or steps) Explain why this is considered an Enumeration graphic. 15-5 Hierarchical Map 2 15-6 ? Explain which type of graphic this is. Explain why this shows a hierarchy.

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