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Taking Efficient and Effective Notes What should I write down?

Taking Efficient and Effective Notes What should I write down?. Academic Success Seminar. Efficient and Effective Notes. Thorough = all main ideas Concise Visually appealing Clear connections Legible handwriting Symbols and abbreviations. Use Pictures. Income. Farm business.

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Taking Efficient and Effective Notes What should I write down?

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  1. Taking Efficient and Effective NotesWhat should I write down? Academic Success Seminar

  2. Efficient and Effective Notes • Thorough = all main ideas • Concise • Visually appealing • Clear connections • Legible handwriting • Symbols and abbreviations

  3. Use Pictures

  4. Income Farm business Influences Marketing Tobacco growers Tobacco companies Teens Profit/ loss Health concerns Smoking pollution The environment Concerns for children Adults Landfill issues Influences Health concerns

  5. Note-taking = Dictation • Note-taking: writing complete ideas • Dictation: writing complete sentences

  6. Examples Dictation: History 1002 meets 2 days a week from 10:00 am to 10:50 am. Notes: Hist 1002 - 2 d/wk 10 – 11 am

  7. Take notes: Keys to green env. 1- ed. public 2- inc. tech. 3- recycle Three keys to green environment – educate public, improve techno., and help increase demand for recycling.

  8. Use headings and space. Gas Use -Factors EuropeU.S Less good hwys More $$ cheap gas More trains auto ind. +pub transp. oil comp.

  9. Use: • CAPITAL LETTERS BOXES • underline

  10. Use Symbols and Abbreviations Mr = !& bc Mrs % w/ ‹ pop › & #  w/o x dec inc

  11. Get the BIG PICTURE! What’s the speaker’s main point? What does s/he want you to learn?

  12. Now let’s change sentences into ideas . . .

  13. Change dictation into notes: Studies on worldwide literacy rates show that almost 80 percent of the world’s population over the age of 15 is now literate. This includes more women than ever before.

  14. WW literacy rates - ~ 80% of world pop, 15+ yrs = literate - more women now

  15. Make lecture notes: “IQ Tests” • There are many types of IQ tests, some better than others. These tests are given by licensed psychologists who receive special training in how to administer the tests and interpret results. IQ tests can be given from two years of age through adulthood, with most children taking them from ages five through twelve. Many IQ tests today are biased toward mathematical, logical, and linguistic forms of reasoning rather than creative and spatially-oriented types of reasoning.

  16. Make lecture notes: “IQ Tests” IQ Tests -given by psych. (training: test and interpret) -2 yrs < IQ < adult; typically = 5 yrs < IQ < 12 yrs -biased! (math, logic, language)

  17. Remember • Use: • Key words * Rewrite notes • Space • Headings * Practice! • Abbrev. & • Get big picture

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