NOTE TAKING 101

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NOTE TAKING 101

• Getting more out of an interview

Joe Curto Mike Piczak May 2006
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175 COURSES LATER

• after taking too many courses in our lives, we
  combined our collective experience and came up
  with the following selection of tips

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TIPS 1

• date it
• take down key points
• work in point form
• write fairly legibly
• forget about trying to get every word go for
  main ideas
• pay attention focus
• listen for the example
• use short forms (Kn, yee, yer, m, u)
• make up/clean up/summarize notes shortly after

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TIPS 2

• watch out for particular emphasis
• ask to see things take away documents
• lots of arrows relating things
• write down contact information so followup can
  occur if necessary
• review it while fresh in mind
• more is preferred to less
• use the Cornel method of note taking

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THE CORNEL METHOD

• who better to inform than university students
  whose function it is to take notes
• start with a note pad and place about a 2 line
  down the one side
• key points are on left side
• filler/explanation is on the right side

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CORNEL ILLUSTRATED
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.24 seconds, 306 million pages

• GOOGLE Note taking
• stand back and set aside some time to peruse what
  you have found

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NOTE TAKING FROM THE NET 1

• http//www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/cornell.html
• Cornell method of note taking at VPI
• http//www.dartmouth.edu/acskills/docs/cornell_no
  te_taking.doc
• Cornell method illustratedDartmouth College
  info.
• http//www.dartmouth.edu/acskills/docs/taking_not
  es_for_others.doc
• More Dartmouth tips

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NOTE TAKING FROM THE NET 2

• http//www.dartmouth.edu/acskills/success/notes.h
  tml
• Note taking at Dartmouth U.
• http//www.dartmouth.edu/acskills/docs/10_bad_lis
  tening_habits.doc
• Listening Skills
• http//www.dartmouth.edu/acskills/docs/taking_not
  es.doc
• More note taking material at Dartmouth

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NOTE TAKING FROM THE NET 3

• http//www.arc.sbc.edu/notes.html
• Academic Resource Center Note taking material
• http//www.yorku.ca/cdc/lsp/notesonline/note4.htm
  cornellexample
• York U.s review of Cornell method
• http//www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/notetaking.syst
  ems.htmlcharting
• California Polytechnic note taking5 methods
  shown

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NOTE TAKING 101

• Getting more out of an interview

the end
Joe Curto Mike Piczak May 2006