Note taking

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Note taking
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What is summarizing?

• Picking out essential details and important ideas
  or themes in an article, a piece of literature,
  or a speech, and then writing those ideas in your
  own words.

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Notetaking and Art

• It can be helpful to practice notetaking first
  with pictures. Study the artwork on this slide,
  and jot down what is important in the picture.

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Your notes may have looked like this

• Girl outside house examining something
• Time in the past, maybe 1800s
• Wearing large white bonnet

The girl, intent on the object in her hands,
seems to be the important focus of this picture.
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Tips for Notetaking

• Use words and phrasesnot complete sentences.
• Avoid copying pieces of texttry to put it in
  your own words.
• Try to organize the notes you take into
  categories as you collect your information.
• Lots of information is interesting look for
  information that is important for your research.

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Try it

• Read this passage on Amelia Earhart and summarize
  it on a sheet of paper.
• In June 1937, Amelia set out to fly around the
  world. She and her navigator, Fred Noonan, flew
  from Miami, Florida, to South America, and then
  across the Atlantic Ocean to Africa. They
  continued over the Sahara desert and on to
  Thailand and Australia. After taking off from New
  Guinea, the U.S. Coast Guard lost contact with
  the plane. No trace of the plane or its
  passengers was ever found.

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Note taking

• Note taking is also about scaling down the
  information you have. This means to pick out the
  important points to record in your notes.
• You want to "boil down" those notes to key facts,
  ideas, and themes.
• Find a passage out of a book you have, and
  summarize it in your own words.

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Sources

• http//www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/les
  son322.shtml
• http//www.infoplease.com/homework/t4takingnotes.h
  tml
• http//www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson/les
  son322.pdf