Friday, 17 October 2014

note taking skill

Note taking is providing systematic formal for condensing and organizing notes without recopying. We must take note to get a point, to understand the lesson and to remember better. sometimes, the instructor share information not available in text book and note taking help the students become active learner ,critical thinker and also effective learner because we will more focus on what the lecturer said, what we are read and force to think rapidly about what we see and hear.
          There are several systems of note taking including Connell, outline, mapping, sentence, charting and Harvard. I like to use mapping and sentence system depends on the course. If I am going to write an essay, I tend to use sentence system since it is the easiest and the fastest way to jot down the elaborations, examples and other things before I forget. When I am in class, I am able to listen to the lecturers and take notes at the same time and I use my own words in my note taking so that I can understand everything that I wrote in class when I want to reread them up at home. This is also to ensure that I still can understand the notes that I have taken in my classes even after a few weeks. I am not that kind of student who can pay full attention in class since I will feel sleepy and to avoid being sleepy, I take notes. I like using mapping system too since it is much easier for me to add on more information regarding that particular topic when I know it somewhere else. I just have to draw another branch and write the new information that I have obtain. we must prepare to take note with review the course syllabus. Therefore, we will know what lecture talking about. the best systems of taking and making  note is Connell system because it has everything in this notes, we take the note in class and summarize and do the question or everything that relate with that topic in the Connell system
             The difference between note taking and note making are note taking is practiced during the class and note making is after the class. I start making notes within 24 hours after class because I am still remembering the things that the lecturer spoke in class. I always look up for more information through websites and books to make sure that my notes are excellent and can be used to revise when I want to study for tests or final exams.

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