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Why and How do we take notes?

Why and How do we take notes?. Who the heck cares?. Note Taking. Taking notes is a skill that needs to be learned ! It is very easy to simply print information off the internet and highlight items that we deem important.

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Why and How do we take notes?

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  1. Why and How do we take notes? Who the heck cares?

  2. Note Taking • Taking notes is a skill that needs to be learned! • It is very easy to simply print information off the internet and highlight items that we deem important. • However, we are not likely to fully comprehend or even recall those points in the future, and they’re not our own ideas or in our own words!

  3. Why? • We take notes so that they are in our own words which, essentially, help us to remember the information and have easy access to that information for future reference.

  4. How? • Read the information • Skim the information and highlight only key words that you think are essential to being able to understand that information • On a loose leaf sheet of paper, write down the date and a title

  5. How? Cont. • Using point-form, write down all that you can remember about what you have just read that are essential to understanding the meaning of what you read (It is important to do it without looking at the information so what you write down is IN YOUR OWN WORDS!)

  6. How? Cont. • Now, look at the items that you highlighted. Did you get all those points down on the paper? Do you need to add any? Take any away? • Reread the whole article of information again • Reread your point-form notes, did you get the main ideas down IN YOUR OWN WORDS?

  7. Tips!

  8. Tip Why? point form and shorthand is faster, easier to read later, helps you summarize ideas organizers help you see links and structures, organize your ideas • Use point form, your own shorthand or symbols, and organizers such as charts, webs, arrows. Use the draw and graphic functions of your software.

  9. Tip Why? this part of the organization is already done for you; provides a structure • Use headings and subheading in the text as a guide for organizing your own notes.

  10. Tip Why? helps you understand what you have read short form is much easier for studying and reading later helps avoid plagiarism (using someone else’s writing or ideas as your own) • Don’t copy text word for word. Choose only the key words, or put the sentences in your own words. • If you want to use a direct quote, be sure to use quotation marks. • Don’t write down words that you don’t know unless you intend to figure them out or look them up. • Use software’s copy and paste function to select key words only.

  11. Tip Why? gives you ideas for further research reminds you to ask others, clarify points gives you practice in analyzing while reading • Write down any questions you have about the topic.

  12. Tip Why? ensures that they’re legible enables you to go back to anything you meant to look at again helps you reflect on and remember what you’ve read • Review your notes when you are done.

  13. Let’s Practice! • You will be given a page of information about our novel Night • Read your assigned section • Highlight key words that you think are important • Now go to the piece of chart paper with your topic on it and write down the information that you read… in point form

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