NOTE TAKING

Why do you take notes?

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Taking notes is Several interesting
that students who
important. studies have found
reviewed their own notes
Some prefer to take that students who
outperformed students
a structured hand-wrote their
who reviewed notes given
approach and use an notes learned more
to them by their teacher.
outline method to than those who typed
take notes. them.
 Cornell Note
Taking Method
 Cornell Note
The Cornell Method is a system
Taking Method for taking, organizing and
reviewing notes.

Professor Walter Pauk of

Cornell University devised this
method in the 1950s.
 The strategy involves
learners dividing their
paper into two columns
with a row across the
bottom. Furthermore, it
requires very little
preparation which makes
it ideal for note taking in
a classroom or during a
meeting.
Cue Column: As you're
taking notes, keep cue
column empty. Soon
after the lecture, reduce
your notes to concise
jottings as clues for
Reciting, Reviewing,
and Reflecting.
 Note Taking Area:
Record lecture as fully
and as meaningfully as
possible.
 Note Taking Area:
Record lecture as fully
and as meaningfully as
possible.
 Record
This format provides During the lecture,
the perfect record in the main
opportunity for column as many
following through meaningful facts and
with the 5 R's of ideas as you can.
Write legibly.
note-taking:
 Reduce
As soon after as
This format provides possible, summarize
the perfect these facts and ideas
concisely in the Cue
opportunity for
Column. Summarizing
following through clarifies meanings and
with the 5 R's of relationships, reinforces
note-taking: continuity, and
strengthens memory.
 Recite
Cover the Note Taking
This format provides Area, using only your
the perfect jottings in the Cue
Column, say over the
opportunity for
facts and ideas of the
following through lecture as fully as you
with the 5 R's of can, not mechanically,
note-taking: but in your own words.
Then, verify what you
have said.
 Reflect
Draw out opinions from
This format provides your notes and use them
the perfect as a starting point for
your own reflections on
opportunity for the course and how it
following through relates to your other
with the 5 R's of courses. Reflection will
note-taking: help prevent ideas from
being inert and soon
forgotten.
.
 Review
This format provides Spend 10 minutes
the perfect every week in quick
opportunity for review of your
following through notes, and you will
with the 5 R's of retain most of what
note-taking: you have learned.
 Thank you!
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