How are notes taken?
The average writing speed of a student is around 0.3 to 0.4 words/
second, whereas a lecturer speaks at a rate of around 2 to 3 words/second.
Unless everything is said at dictation speed, or students develop exceptional
shorthand skills, teachers will never speak slowly enough for students to write
down everything that is said. As a result, students intuitively develop processes
and methods that allow them to record the content of lessons. Without going
into detail about the linguistic processes used, which are well known, such
as the use of abbreviations, truncating long words, and apocopes, we would
like to briefly look at the markers in a speaker’s text that signal, more or less
explicitly, the importance of what is being said.