Office of Academic Advisement
Note Taking Tips
Academic Advisement
Duns Scotus 126
Phone 839-8228
advisement@daemen.edu
Notetaking
Tips
- Use three-ring
loose-leaf notebooks. You can remove notes and update them as necessary.
- Take notes
during class to capture a subject's main ideas. Expand on them later.
- Perfection
is not necessary. Messy notes are better than no notes. Rewrite notes
in your own words later.
- Use abbreviations,
acronyms and contractions to save space and time.
- Copy whatever
is written on the board.
- Pay attention
to verbal cues and summarize your professor's comments.
- Write
notes on the right-hand side of the page. List key terms on the left-hand
side of the same page. Write a summary of your notes at the bottom of
the page.
- Use a
second note page for listing questions and their answers. Write potential
test questions at the bottom of the page.
- Stay alert
and concentrate on the topic being discussed.
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