{"id":268,"date":"2024-03-08T20:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T20:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2024-03-08T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T20:13:32","slug":"strategies-for-taking-good-lecture-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/strategies-for-taking-good-lecture-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies for taking good lecture notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Take well-organized notes in outline form<\/strong><br \/>This will help you to identify the main ideas. Start large, work down to details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take notes in complete thoughts, but abbreviate, reduce, and simplify<\/strong><br \/>Don&#8217;t try to write the profs lecture word for word. You will fall behind and miss something important. Don&#8217;t copy overheads unless the professor gives you time to do so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Separate and label the notes for each class<\/strong><br \/>Start a new set of notes for each day, clearly separated from the day before; it makes your notes easier to study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make your notes easy to read<\/strong><br \/>It&#8217;s easier to study your notes if you can read them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be an aggressive note taker<\/strong><br \/>Sit where you can hear and see the professor without straining. Stay alert.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Start taking notes when the professor starts talking<\/strong><br \/>Don&#8217;t wait for a big thought to strike you. You could easily become distracted and miss the big thought.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isolate and learn the specialized vocabulary<\/strong><br \/>Write down and highlight difficult or new words. Write definitions, or look them up later. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Separate facts from opinion and add your own ideas<\/strong><br \/>Note what is fact and what is the professor&#8217;s opinion. Add your own thoughts; write notes directly to yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Develop your own set of symbols. Use them to identify or emphasize various items in your notes.<\/strong><br \/>Use circles, underlines, or other symbols that will be meaningful to you. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Include pictures, diagrams and other visuals<\/strong><br \/>Copying diagrams or other visuals helps you to understand concepts later. We tend to think in terms of pictures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take notes on discussion<\/strong><br \/>Take notes when meeting with your tutor. Use notes you&#8217;ve taken in lecture to generate discussion with your tutor group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Always attend lectures to develop a complete set of notes.<\/strong><br \/>Think of your lecture notes as chapters in a book, and strive to have all the chapters. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1);\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take well-organized notes in outline formThis will help you to identify the main ideas. Start large, work down to details. Take notes in complete thoughts, but abbreviate, reduce, and simplifyDon&#8217;t try to write the profs lecture word for word. You will fall behind and miss something important. Don&#8217;t copy overheads unless the professor gives you time to do so. Separate and label the notes for each classStart a new set of notes for each day, clearly separated from the day&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/strategies-for-taking-good-lecture-notes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strategies for taking good lecture notes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/ic\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}