Take Better Notes

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Take Better Notes
Tomas Rivera Center for Student Success
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WHY TAKE NOTES?

• Taking notes helps students to concentrate in
  class.
• Taking notes develops a sense of listening,
  allowing the reader to recognize main ideas.
• Makes student an active part of the learning
  process rather than a passive listener.
• Helps prepare for the exams, quizzes.

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WHY TAKE NOTES?

• Notes often contain information that generally
  cannot be found else where (i.e textbooks).
• Notes are often a valuable clue for what
  instructor or writer think is important.

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Tips for Reading
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Detailed reading

• Detailed reading is a close analysis of a text.
• Steps to Read the Article
• Look at the structure of the article (most
  scientific articles follow the same specific
  format)
• Abstract (summary of the whole article)
• Introduction (why they did the research)
• Methodology (how they did the research)
• Results (what happened)
• Discussion (what the results mean)
• Conclusion (what they learned)
• References (whose research they read)

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Detailed reading

• Read the abstract and conclusion first (these
  have the main points)
• If you find anything in the abstract or
  conclusion that is important for your
  paper, search for the information
• If you need more information, then read through
  whole sections (usually discussion or results
  section

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TAKING NOTES

• To write a little faster use abbreviations
  symbols to record the information.
• W/ with
• W/O without
• Page
• lt less than
• b/4 before
• equals
• percent
• Vs versus
• C/o care of