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Langan: Reading and Study Skills
Reading and Study Skills, 7/e
John Langan

Taking Classroom Notes

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Taking Notes From Lectures
(http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/ss_notetaking.html)

This website, from the University of Minnesota, Deluth, offers tips for notetaking. In college classes, lectures are still the primary way faculty deliver information to students. Progress has been made to make college a more collaborative learning process, but lectures are alive and well. Consequently, notetaking is still the primary means of sorting, organizing, and processing this material.
Taking Notes from Research Reading
(http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/notes.html)

If you take notes efficiently, you can read with more understanding and also save time and frustration when you come to write your paper. This website from the University of Toronto offers three main principles for effective notetaking.
The Cornell Note Taking System
(http://www.dartmouth.edu/admin/acskills/no_frames/lsg/cornell.html)

This website gives instructions about how to use the Cornell Note Taking System, a popular method for taking notes.