Note-Taking Skills
Effective notetaking from lectures and readings is an essential skill for university study. Good notetaking allows a permanent record for revision and a register of relevant points that you can integrate with your own writing and speaking. Good notetaking reduces the risk of plagiarism. It also helps you distinguish where your ideas came from and how you think about those ideas.
Effective notetaking requires:
recognising the main ideas
identifying what information is relevant to your task
having a system of note taking that works for you
reducing the information to note and diagram format
where possible, putting the information in your own words
recording the source of the information