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Note Taking
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Note Taking
Studies have shown that without review, 47% of what you learn
is forgotten in 20 minutes and 62% is forgotten after 1 day.
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Note Taking
Good note taking is key to your success as a graphic designer.
Designers often work within groups and with clients. Without
good notes a designer can easily loose track of information that
can prove vital to the success of a project.
The process is so complex that you need good notes in order to
keep track of it all.
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Note Taking
Good note taking improves your thinking skills.
The practice of good note taking will aid in the development of your
critical thinking process. It requires the knowledge, comprehension,
and application of information. Higher levels of note taking require
analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Notes represent your accumulated knowledge from the class and
hold you accountable for your own education.
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Note Taking
Here are 5 tips for good note taking:
1. Be prepared
2. Improve listening skills
3. Consistent note taking methods
4. Pay close attention
5. Review and summarize your notes
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Be Prepared
Read the required materials before class so you can focus on
taking good notes on the lecture.
Keep your notes in a 3 ring binder so you can swap pages in
and out of it.
Use a highlighter to mark important content in your notes.
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Improving Listening Skills
Concentrate on concentrating, if you don’t focus when listening
your notes will lack focus.
Adapt to the direction and tone of the lecture.
Think about what is being taught, not just what is being said.
Listening is not a passive activity.
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Consistent Note Taking Method
Develop a consistent and effective note taking method that
works for you, and stick with it.
Keep it brief, never use a sentence when a phrase works and
never use a phrase when a word works.
Leave blank space in your notes to allow you to add questions
or comments in the future.
Use one side of the paper for notes so you can easily move
them around and make side to side comparisons.
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Pay Close Attention
Make sure to write the following information in your notes.
Definitions, Examples, Repeated Information, Specific Facts,
Formulas, Equations, Lists, Charts and Drawings
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Review and Summarize your Notes
The more often you review your notes the more information
you will retain.
Summarizing your notes will help you focus on the big ideas in
them and will help you see connections across the material you
covered that week.
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Note Taking System
Note Taking
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Note Taking Form
Function: Use this form to take your notes
for every series in this class.
Organization: Keep a set of notes for every
topic of the series.
- Readings
- Lecture / Discussion
- Demonstration
- Projects / Studies / Exercises
Deliverable: You will need to have your
notes with you in class to be reviewed.
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Note Taking Form
Fill out the topic for the notes.
Fill out information
Use this section for visual notation.
Use this section to take notes.
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Note Summary Form
Function: Use this form to summarize your
notes for the week.
Organization: Fill out a summary form for
every note topic, each week.
- Readings
- Lecture / Discussion
- Demonstration
- Projects / Studies / Exercises
Deliverable: You will need to turn in your
set of notes summaries each week.
NOTES SUMMARYWeek ___________ Class ___________ Section _________ Date ____________ Series ______________________________
ReadingsTopics:Demonstrations
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NOTES SUMMARYWeek ___________ Class ___________ Section _________ Date ____________ Series ______________________________
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Note Summary Form
List out your tasks for the week to help manage your time.
Note questions that you have so you can bring them up
in class.
Use this section to take notes.
Fill out information
Fill out the topic for the notes.
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Series Summary Form
Function: Use this form to connect the
thinking and the making portions of the
class per series.
Organization: Order these forms by the
series and date.
Deliverable: You will turn this form in at
the end of each series.
SERIES SUMMARY
THINKING
MAKING
Series ______________________________ Class ___________ Section _________ Date ____________
Readings
Demonstrations
Connections
Lectures / Discussions
Exercises / Studies / Projects
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Name _______________________________
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SERIES SUMMARY
THINKING
MAKING
Series ______________________________ Class ___________ Section _________ Date ____________
Readings
Demonstrations
Connections
Lectures / Discussions
Exercises / Studies / Projects
Continue on back
Name _______________________________
Series Summary Form
Use this section to summarize your notes on reading
Front
Use this section to summarize your notes on
demonstrations
Use this section to summarize your notes on projects,
studies, and exercises
Use this section to summarize your notes on lectures
and discussions
Use this section to list the connections you see from
the other four sections
Fill out information
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Questions
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Series Summary Form
Keep track of you questions for the week so you can
answer those questions in later studies
Use this section for any content you couldn’t fit on the
first side
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COURSE SUMMARY
CONNECTIONS
Class ___________ Section _________ Date ____________
Series 1 - Balance & Tension
Series 4 - Composition & Communication
Series 5 - Point, Line, Plane Series 2 - Gestalt
Series 3 - Interval
Name _________________________________________________
Course Summary Form
Function: Use this form
to connect all the series
in the class.
Deliverable: You will
turn this form in at the
end of the course.
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COURSE SUMMARY
CONNECTIONS
Class ___________ Section _________ Date ____________
Series 1 - Balance & Tension
Series 4 - Composition & Communication
Series 5 - Point, Line, Plane Series 2 - Gestalt
Series 3 - Interval
Name _________________________________________________
Course Summary Form
Use these sections to
summarize your what you
learned in each series
Use this section to list the
connections you see from each
of the five series
Fill out information
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Course NotesNote TakingTopics Note Summary Series Summary Course Summary
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Readings
Demonstrations
Lectures / Discussions
Exercises / Studies / Projects
SERIES SUMMARY
THINKING
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COURSE SUMMARY
CONNECTIONS
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