practice note-taking
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Why take notes?
How do I take notes?
How do I know what is important
and what is not?How do I write my notes?
When should I write up my
notes?
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The purpose:1. to help you to concentrate on what the
speaker saying2. to provide you with a summary in note
form.3.To provide you with a complete record of
the lecture.As a result you will get deeper
understanding of the content of thelecture.
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Th
e general principle in note-taking
Reduce the language
How?
By shortening words and sentences
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You must be able to determine
what you need to write down,
what is important to you.
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Write down the title of the lecture in full.Listen for direct or indirect signals from
lecturer that tell you what is important.
Listen for repetitionTry to determine the lecturers style oforganisation of speaking.
Concentrate on the important wordscontent words usually nouns, sometime
verbs, adjectives or adverbs.Omit unimportant words form words:
auxiliary verbs, determiners, pronouns,prepositions
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Below is the opening paragraph of a
lecture on reading skills. Read it and
underline the most important words.Youshould consider whether or not the whole
meaning of the paragraph could be
understood just from the words you have
underlined:
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When a teacher or lecturer recommends astudent to read a book it's usually for aparticular purpose. The book may contain
useful information about the topic beingstudied or it may be invaluable for the ideasor views that it puts forward, and so on. Inmany cases, the teacher doesn't suggest that
the whole book should be read. In fact, hemay just refer to a few pages which have adirect bearing on the matter being discussed.
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When a teacher or lecturer recommends astudent to read a book it's usually for aparticular purpose. The book may contain
useful information about the topic beingstudied or it may be invaluable for the ideasor views that it puts forward, and so on. Inmany cases, the teacher doesn't suggest that
the whole book should be read. In fact, hemay just refer to a few pages which have adirect bearing on the matter being discussed.
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Concentrate on the important ideas.
Summarise important ideas.
Write in short phrases rather than incomplete sentences.
Example:The paragraph from Task 1 could bewritten in note form like this:
Lecturer/ teacher recommends book forparticular purpose. Not whole book, justfew pages.
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Now read the second paragraph of the lectureand write it down in note form:
Unfortunately, when many students pick up a book
to read they tend to have no particular purpose inmind other than simply to 'read the book'. Oftenthey open the book and start reading, page bypage, line by line, word by word; in other words,slowly and in great detail. The result is that
students frequently don't have an overall view ofwhat they're reading; also, they tend to forget fairlysoon what they've been reading.
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(1) A.(2) govt.
(3) info.
(4) min.
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James, K., Jordan,R.R., & Matthews, A.J. (1979). Listening
Comprehension & Note-taking Practice Course. Collins.
London. (Including tape) at
http://158.132.164.193/ELSC/material/Listening/not
e-taking.html#Why%20take%20notes