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Can you improve your ability to take notes in class? Techniques for developing excellent note-taking skills include: preparing for a class lecture, listening for the important content, taking good lecture notes, and editing and studying these notes. You should be able to recognize and record the overall organization of a lecture along with specific organizational patterns such as: comparison-contrast, cause-effect, sequence-order, problem-solution, classification, definition, and listing. You should also be prepared to edit and study the notes you have taken in class. The procedure of editing notes is related to the levels of thinking (Bloom's Taxonomy). Your edits can be easily integrated with textbook notes via a computerized notebook. Strategies, such as the recall clue system and collaborative studying, are helpful for learning the information in the final draft of the notes. (Corresponds to material covered in Chapter 4 in College Reading and Study Skills and Chapter 6 in Academic Reading.)
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