How to take notes

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How to take notes

• CORNELL STYLE

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Why Take Notes

• Learn new Terminology Concepts
• Organize Thoughts and Process Data
• Stimulates critical thinking skills.
• A good set of notes can help students work on
  assignments and prepare for tests outside of the
  classroom.
• Good notes allow students to help each other
  problem solve.

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Preparing the System

• Use your composition notebook
• Draw a vertical line down the left side of the
  page 1/3 from the left margin. This is the
  Cue/Recall Column.
• This column includes questions or main ideas
• Notes will be recorded to the right of this line
  and key words and phrases will be written on the
  left.

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Preparing the System

• Leave 2" at the bottom of the last page to record
  questions to ask your instructor and possible
  test questions.

• Summary is added at the end of ALL note pages on
  the subject (not page)
• Summary added AFTER questions
• are finished
• Summary should answer the problem
• stated in the subject.

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Again what goes where?
Questions, subtitles, etc. go here, in the left
hand column. Remember, we want higher
level critical thinking questions.
Dont forget the heading Name, Class, Period,
Date, Topic
Notes go here, in the large right hand column.
A 3 to 4 sentence summary down there on the
bottom of the last page of notes
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Notetaking Tips

• Each lecture should start a new page
• Date your notes
• Always place in your table of contents
• Never use a sentence when you can use a phrase,
  or a phrase when you can use a word.

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Notetaking Tips

• Use indentations to distinguish between
• Major
• And minor points
• Develop a code system of note-marking to indicate
  questions, comments, important points, due dates
  of assignments, etc..

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Arthropods
Biology Notes Example
Notice how Vocab Word on Left Side and Definition
on Right side
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Example
(Diagram copied during lecture)
(Questions about it )

• How do the ticks find the cattle?
• Why dont the ticks usually kill their host?
• How could tick infestations in cattle impact
  humans?

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Physics Notes Example
Notice the diagram In the notes section
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Summary w/ diagrams
Notice the summary may take a paragraph to
explain all that is the notes. Also notice the
graphs for explanation.
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Grading Rubric