European Union LawNote-taking sessionMonday 13 October 2008, 5pm

CILASS Collaboratory 3, Bart House

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By the end of the session …

• Think about skills involved in note-taking• Each student more confident in note-

taking abilities• Each student have some notes, taken

today from the textbook, on which (self, peer, tutor) feedback given

• Each student be given some ideas of different ways to take notes

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• Think of a film you have recently seen or a novel you have recently read

• Turn to the person next to you, and, in 2 minutes, tell them about it

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Think about what you just did• In your pairs, describe what each of

you did

• What did you communicate?

• How did you communicate it?

• What did you have to do in order to be able to communicate?

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Apply this to Note-taking

• Overview; key points; big picture

• Significant details, not insignificant ones

• Themes

• Not necessarily sequential

• Refer to other things (“it was a bit like Jurassic Park, only with aliens …”)

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Key thing 1

• You have to understand!

• What can you do if you do not understand the part of the textbook you are reading?

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Key thing 2

• Separate the relevant from the irrelevant

• How can you go about doing this?

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Each pair join another pairConsider these questions

• Why do we need to take notes?

• What are the purposes of taking notes?

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How do I begin?

• Survey the topic (lectures, headings, summary at start of chapter)

• Questions?

• Do NOT begin at the beginning!

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Some different styles of notes – consider advs/disadvs/uses• Bullet lists

• Structured/numbered lists

• Mind maps/spidergrams

• Keywords

• Verbatim notes

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Some techniques for note-takingYou may want to use some or all of these in combination, or at different times

• Read, Review, Write, Compare

• Highlight/underline and write

• Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review (SQ3R)

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Now you have a go

• If you have not yet begun on topic 3:

• The beginning of chapter 17 (the single market)

• If you have begun work on topic 3:

• The beginning of chapter 19; OR

• From p 677; OR

• From p 696

Choose either:

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Get into a pair, ideally with one other student who has done the same pages as you

• Show each other the notes you have made

• Compare and contrast your notes. Why the differences? Would these notes be particularly good for particular purposes?

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Feedback on examples of good practice

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If you are now (reasonably) happy, feel free to go.If you would like some more feedback on the notes you have taken, stay and I will discuss with you.

Professor T Hervey