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NOTE-TAKING

NOTE-TAKING. Lecture 2-2. Note-taking. Purposes What to note How to note When to note Reading back notes. Note-taking: Purposes. Only an aid, not an end Noting too much: 2 risks Interpreter’s notes, vs secretary’s/student’s Relieve memory: numbers, names, lists

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NOTE-TAKING

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  1. NOTE-TAKING Lecture 2-2

  2. Note-taking • Purposes • What to note • How to note • When to note • Reading back notes

  3. Note-taking: Purposes • Only an aid, not an end • Noting too much: 2 risks • Interpreter’s notes, vs secretary’s/student’s • Relieve memory: numbers, names, lists • Jogging memory: structure

  4. Note-taking: What to note • Main ideas, not words (esp. new words) • Links • Points of view • What happened when • Numbers, names, lists

  5. Note-taking: How to note • Diagonal lay-out (shift/decalage) • Left-hand margin: links • Verticality of lists • Abbreviations and symbols: frequent, links, tenses, stress, arrows, suffixes • Language: source or target or both

  6. Note-taking: When to note • Wait for complete ideas • Start immediately for lists, numbers, … • Reading notes: communication, like pianists

  7. Note-taking: Zorans’ 7 principles • Note the idea, not the word: target language • Abbreviating: suffixes, tenses, register • Linking: cos, tho, but, if, as to, tfe, =, in + • Negation: no • Stress: underline • Verticality: stacking, brackets • Shifting: diagonal

  8. Note-taking: 20 symbols • Expression: thought [:]; speech [“]; discussion [◙]; approval [ok] • Motion: direction [→]; increase [↑]; decrease [↓] • Correspondence: relation [/]; equivalence [=]; difference [≠]; framing [] • Addition: [+]; [-] • Things: country [□]; global [W]; work [w]; issues [?]; trade [Tr]

  9. Note-taking: Let’s practice

  10. Questions for tutorial discussion • Explain the practical points on note-taking (what, how, which language, when to note and reading notes) as suggested by Jones (Conference interpreting explained, pp43-70 • Explain the 7 principles in note-taking as suggested by Zoran, (cited by Henderson in Babel. V22, No3, 1976. pp107-116)

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