Note Taking

Note Taking

For Students

Get out your paper and pencil, folks. It's time to learn about note taking

Note taking is an important part of many academic subjects. This wikibook describes the different types of note taking that exists, and how they can be used. Just like any other wikibooks, feel free to modify or add anything you might think would benefit.

Contents

• Basic Formatting
• Specific Formatting
• Two-column Method
• REAP Strategy
• Outline Format
• FORM Strategy
• Topic and Concept Cards
• Mind Mapping
• Alternate Formats

Further reading

On Wikibooks:

• How to Learn a Language suggests making your own flash cards. Writing it down once is good, but going back and reviewing helps you remember.
• How To Become A Good Student
• College Survival Guide/Improving Writing Skills
• Basic Writing
• Creative Writing
• Physics lab notebooks; Biotechnology#Notebooks -- note taking in a lab is slightly different than note taking during a lecture.
• Study Skills#Taking Notes

On Wikipedia:

• Wikipedia: Mind map

Elsewhere:

• Learning Strategies Database: Forms of Organization
• Notetaking Systems
• "How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think" by Lion Kimbro
• some people take notes on a Hipster PDA.
• other people take notes in a personal wiki. (wiki: PersonalWiki, Wikipedia: personal wiki)
• When gathering information for a essay or book from a bunch of books and magazine articles, many authors take notes on index cards, and then later put the index cards in order. "24 Things You Can Do With an Index Card"
• "How to Organize Notebooks" video
• "Want to find your ideas in a year? Write them down!"

Book Information

• I created a few images for some formats, which are all created by me, and published without restrictions as public domain. The "paper" is available from http://icez.org:81/res/paper.png 68.3.56.121 17:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)