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Note Taking vs. Note Making Explained

This document discusses note taking and note making. It defines note taking as recording information from lectures through writing or typing, while note making involves reviewing, combining, and synthesizing ideas from written sources. Both are important study skills that help students gain knowledge from academic communications and support recall. The main difference is that note taking occurs while listening and is faster, while note making involves reading and is a slower, more reflective process.

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Note Taking vs. Note Making Explained

This document discusses note taking and note making. It defines note taking as recording information from lectures through writing or typing, while note making involves reviewing, combining, and synthesizing ideas from written sources. Both are important study skills that help students gain knowledge from academic communications and support recall. The main difference is that note taking occurs while listening and is faster, while note making involves reading and is a slower, more reflective process.

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NOTE TAKING AND NOTE MAKING

Dr Susan Akinkurolere​
Outline
 Introduction
 Importance of  note taking and note making
 Note taking from lectures
 ​Note making from written sources
 Techniques of Note Making from Texts
 Comparison of Note taking and Note making
 Similarities Between Note Taking and Note Making
 Conclusion
Introduction

 Note making and note taking are crucial academic


practices in the university. 

 Both note taking and note taking are learning processes. 

 The focus of note taking and note making is to help


learners gain optimally from academic spoken and
written communication.
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Importance of Note taking and Note Making

 The following are the benefits of effective note taking and note
making:
 It aids listening or reading to identify main ideas.
 It shows the extent of understanding of the speech/lecture or material,
 It supports learners' intellectual ability to recall cogent ideas,
 Itenables the listener or reader to have a sense of what the instructor
or author thinks, 
 Note taking and note making serve as a guide to learning.
Note Taking from Lectures
 Note-taking(sometimes written as notetaking or note
taking) is the practice of recording information
captured from another source.
 NoteTaking note involves active listening, observation
and note taking through typing or writing.
 Typing (Microsoft one note, ever note, sonocent audio
note taker)
  Writing
in notes(outline form, cornell style, half page
technique)
Note Making from Written Sources

 Note Making is the practice of keeping


record from different sources.

 Notecould be made from written texts,


books, journals or electronic sources.
Techniques of Note Making from Texts
 Identify the main idea of a paragraph
 Ifyou want to underline/ highlight- only mark this or write this
in the margin or write this in your notes
 Always put information in your own words
 Keep it short and to the point
 Use the book's structure
 Use headings and sub-headings to format your notes, if you
are taking separate notes
 Use effective reading techniques
Comparison of Note taking and Note
Making
Note-taking usually happens while we are
listening, but we usually make notes while
reading.
Note-taking refers to the process of writing down
or recording the key points of information, while
note-making refers to the process of reviewing,
combining, and synthesizing ideas you hear or
read.
Similarities Between Note Taking and
Note Making
 Note-takingand note-making are writing processes
that most frequently help us in our studies.

 These processes demand active listening and


engagement during listening, reading, or revision.
Conclusion

 Note taking and note taking are study practices that could
be learned.
  Students' engagement and acquisition of knowlegde
 The main difference between note taking and note making
is that note-taking is a faster process than note-making 
while note-making is a relatively slow process and involves
more of our own language. 
THANK YOU

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