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  • 1. There's No Substitute for Taking Your Own Good Notes
  • Note-Taking Helps You Pay Attention
  • Note-Taking Helps You Remember
  • Good Note-Taking Helps Organize Ideas
  • 2. How to Tell What's Worth Noting
  • Criteria for Deciding What's Worth Preserving
  • 1. Category: What Type of Information Is It?
  • 2. Relevance: Does the Information Relate to the Topic?
  • 3. Importance: Do You Need the Information?
  • 4. Personal Bias: Do You Want to Remember the Information?
  • Aids That Put Your Notes in Perspective
  • 1. Buy, Borrow, or Make a Course Outline
  • 2. Start Learning the Course Jargon
  • 3. How to Organize Notes
  • How to Use Outline Form
  • How to Work Outline Form into a Memory Clue System
  • How to Use Patterning to Organize Notes
  • 4. Shortcuts for Note-Taking
  • Use of Shorthand for Quicker Note-Taking
  • 5. Taking Notes from Assigned Text
  • Learn How to Read for a Course
  • 1. How to Skim
  • How to Take Notes from Fiction
  • How to Take Textbook Notes
  • 1. Size Up the Textbook
  • 2. Systematize Your Note-Taking with OK4R
  • How to Take Notes on Nontextbook Nonfiction
  • Learn How to Write in Your Books
  • 1. Use the Margin-Sparingly
  • 2. Note Significant Pages in the Front Inside Cover
  • 3. Put Important Data at the End of the Book
  • A Word about Other Note-Taking Systems
  • 6. Taking Lecture Notes
  • Listening vs. Reading
  • Organize Your Tools
  • Keep Your Course Outline Handy
  • Keep Your Mind from Wandering
  • 1. Choose a Seat Carefully
  • 2. Avoid Friends
  • 3. Keep Lecture and Personal Matters Separate
  • 4. Stay Awake, Stay Alert
  • Catch the Lecturer's Clues
  • 1. Relate the Lecture to Your Assigned Reading
  • 2. Keep Track of Time
  • 3. Listen for Speaking Style
  • 4. Keep Alert for the Lecturer's Special Words
  • 7. Taking Research Notes
  • Preparing a Preliminary Outline
  • Listing Research Questions.
  • Using Good Note-Taking Tools
  • 1. Prepare a Work File
  • 2. Prepare Bibliography Blanks
  • 3. Key Your Notes to the Bibliography Blanks
  • 4. Note Which Page Numbers Your Notes Came From
  • 5. Key Each Photocopy
  • Keeping Notes Legible
  • Taking Adequate Notes
  • 8. Taking Minutes of Meetings
  • Appendix A: Notes on Chapter 1
  • Appendix B: Practice in Analyzing Information and Taking Notes on Lectures
  • Appendix C: Course Outline for "Methods of Note-Taking"
  • Appendices D and E: Speech Outline and Speech Clue Words
  • Appendix F: Shorthand Notes on Chapter 4
  • Appendix G: "Agent X" Research Questions.