The Cornell Note-taking System

• Requires organization on the part of the student.• Requires critical thinking.• Develops active listening skills.• Requires concentration.• Solidifies understanding.• Aids student in determining what the instructor thinks is important.• Strengthens some learning styles.• Reduces information to manageable amount for review

Five Things To Remember!

• Motivation Listening

• Taking Notes

• Questioning

• Review Taking Notes

• Motivation is tied to goals & attitude

• Nurture and develop enthusiasm and motivating self-talk

• Be Proactive and not Re-active.

• Set clear and achievable goals

• Use strategies that support your learning efforts

• Get positive!

• Decide that you and your future are worth making the investment NOW!

• Realize that every hour wasted today will significantly decrease your career success and earning potential later.

• Be an active listener 1. Read text before class

2. Give speaker your attention

3. Be actively engaged with material:

- make connections

- get the big picture

Listening:

• Capture main ideas

• Don’t recopy notes

• Don’t use tape recorder• Review notes immediately after • lecture

• Don’t rely on memorization

Taking Notes:

• Ask questions of speaker- Clarify information

• Ask questions of yourself- Have an inquiring mind

• There are no “dumb questions”- Only unasked ones

Questioning:

• If your system works- Don’t Change

• If your system doesn’t work- Try Cornell System

Review Taking Notes:

The most widely used system in the U.S. gives you a ready-made tool for review!

• Step 1- Preparing the System

• Step 2- During the Lecture

• Step 3- After the Lecture

Three Important Steps!

• Use large loose-leaf notebook to

store notes and handouts

• Take notes on one side of paper only

• Make recall column:- Draw a vertical line two and one half inches from left edge of paper

- Key words written to left of line

Step 1 - Preparing the System:

• Record classroom notes in space to right of line

• Review notes on yesterday’s lecture

• Record notes in simple paragraph form

• Roman numeral system not necessary

• Capture general ideas: Get names, dates

from text

• Skip lines to show end of one idea/start

of another

Step 2 - During the Lecture:

• Most students can learn speedwriting in several minutes. Just omit all (or most) vowels. For example, mst stdnts cn lrn spdwrtng in svrl mnts. Jst omt ll or mst vwls.

• Or develop your own shorthand method.

• Using abbreviations will give extra time to listen and write

• Write legibly- Do not recopy notes

- Copying notes is not review

- Copying notes is a waste of time

• Consolidate notes after class- Read through notes; make more legible

- Fill in spaces

- Underline main ideas

Step 3 - After the Lecture:

• Summarize main ideas

- Jot key words and phrases for ideas on the left

- Gives time for reflection

- Organizes thoughts in mind and on paper

• Use jottings as cues or “flags” to aid recall:

- Cover right side of paper

- Recite facts aloud in your own words- Uncover notes & verify what you said

- Reciting is the most powerful recall technique

• RECORD FACTS During lecture, record meaningful facts, ideas in right column. Write legibly. (Use abbreviations; write in phrases) Skip 2 lines between subtopics or key ideas.

• REDUCE Soon after lecture, summarize facts, ideas concisely in FACTS left (recall) column.

Clarifies meanings, relationships.Reinforces continuity. Strengthens memory. Helps review for exams.

• RECITE Cover right column. Recall facts, ideas from lecture (in FACTS own words).

Uncover notes - verify what you said. Helps transfer

notes to long-term memory.

• REFLECT Separate opinions from notes. Record, organize, file

ON NOTES opinions of lecture subject. Categorize them, review occasionally.

• REVIEW Spend 3-5 min. Reviewing right after class.NOTES (Study daily - 2 hrs. outside class for ea. hr. in class)

Helps retention.

Course, teacher(date)

Recording ColumnKey terms/recall

Seven Tips to Note-Taking Success

• Include details, facts, or explanations that expand or explain the main points that are mentioned.

• Include definitions, word for word, especially if your professor repeats them several times.

• Include enumerations or lists of things that are discussed.

Tips:

• Include examples. You don’t need to note all of the details for each example, but you do need to know which general topic each example relates

• Include anything that is written on the chalkboard or on a transparency (on an overhead projector)

Seven Tips (contd.):

• Include anything that is repeated or spelled out

• Include drawings, charts, or problems that are written on the board

Seven Tips (contd.):

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• If your teacher is giving extra credit for attending this workshop:

– Fill out an attendance verification form for each teacher giving extra credit: • List today’s date.• Sign your name (legibly).• Write the first & last name of each teacher. If you do not know the first

name, list the course name and meeting time.• Check appropriate items.• Turn in to ARC personnel after workshop.• We will validate it and mail it to your teacher.

– Questions? Ask us. Academic Resources Center AMST 206A – Ext. 4024