Note-Taking and Note-Making Essentials
Notes are crucial for storing information in a retrievable manner for future use. Note-taking involves summarizing information, while note-making expands it into paragraphs. Making notes helps in retaining new information, identifying key points, and organizing content effectively. Good notes are concise with main ideas and key details, utilizing abbreviations and excluding unnecessary words. Check out examples and characteristics of good notes in this informative content.
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SYBSc ENGLISH US03AENG21 Topic 6 & 7 Note-Taking & Note making Dr Charudutt Gurjar
What are notes? Notes are one of the forms of storing information, in an easily retrievable way, for future use. We take notes radio or watching a programme. while listening to a lecture or the
What is Note making? So note taking is the ability to listen and reduce information to a point form. While note making is the ability to expand information from point to paragraph form and vice versa. We make notes when we study.
Why should we make note? 2 Why do make notes? We make notes because we cannot remember new information without writing some of it down. Taking notes is necessary to remember what we read or listen to. It also helps us to identify the organization of the passage/ lecture and also its main points. We also learn to leave out non- essential information We make notes for many purposes. Some of the common purposes for which we make notes are : a) Studying b) Writing articles, essays etc. Making speeches, presentations etc c) Making telephone calls etc. d) .
While taking down notes we have to -- listen and understand what the speaker is saying -- mentally extract the important points -- jot(write) them down 3) What are the characteristics of Good Notes.? A Notes are short b) Only the main ideas and important supporting details are included c) Abbreviations and symbols are used. d) Words like articles, prepositions and conjunctions are left out.
Example:2 The Wall Paper Everyone putting wall paper on the wall Mark painting Kate helping Ted and MrYates Ted and MrYates want to put wall paper on Mark s painting MrsYates asks Ann Ann smartly says they both help each other look better All happy
All are working. Ted is putting wall paper on the wall while Mark is making a painting on the wall. Kate is helping Ted .Ted and Mr. Yates want to paper the wall on which mark has made the painting. He and Kate object .They ask Mrs. Yates but she is neutral. She asks Ann. She smartly says the painting and the wall paper make each other look better. So all are happy.
Example:1 A Good Lunch Kate s friend David thinks Kate is a good cook She invites David for lunch David tells her he hates chicken Ann tells Kate Mrs Yates will not cook lunch. / Going out Kate worried. Tells Ann to cook/ Ann has to go Kate tells Ted to cook / but he plays football on Sundays Kate uses cookery book to cook The food gets burnt Mr Yates gives Food packets for everybody/ cleans up the kitchen David comes at 1.00/ impressed with the arrangement The lunch has chicken in it / Kate did not know about it David goes off angrily/ Kate sad But Ted and Mark love chicken/ all three enjoy a good lunch.
Kates friend David is always hungry and Kate tells him that she is a good cook She invites him for lunch the next day. Davis tells her that he hates chicken. Next day when Kate tells her about David coming home for lunch,Ann informs her that Mrs. Yates is going out and will not cook lunch. Kate gets worried. She requests Ann to cook but Ann is going to work. She then requests Ted to cook. But he can t because he plays football on Sundays. Kate then tries to cook using a cookery book, but burns the meat. She feels sad and helpless .At that time Mr. Yates gives her packets of ready to eat food and offers to clean the kitchen. When David arrives at 1.00 O Clock, he is impressed with the arrangements. But when he sees chicken on the plate, he gets very angry and goes away without eating. Kate is very sorry. But Ted and Mark ask her to enjoy a good lunch.
Mark is ill Mark s turn to help pretends to be ill- pain in his arm -- Mrs. Yates feels sorry She asks Ann to have a look at his arm Mark shows her wrong arm Ann is nurse--doesn t find anything wrong -- Mrs. Yates calls doctor the doctor doesn t find anything wrong Now they know that Mark is pretending -- want to teach Mark a lesson make a plan Ann becomes his nurse Gives him mixture of Vinegar and orange juice massage with very hot water Treatment to be repeated every hour Marks hates it Mark understands he gets up and starts cleaning
It is marks turn to help Mrs. Yates. But he is very tired as he was at a dance at the Art School till 2.00 O clock. He is not willing to work. So he decides to fall ill. He tells Mrs. Yates that he has pain in the arm. She feels sorry for him. He tells her that he will be alright with rest and goes to bed. Mrs. Yates asks Ann(who is a nurse) to look at his arm .When she goes to see him he shows the wrong arm . A doctor is also called. He finds nothing wrong. Mark s friends realize that he is pretending. So they decide to teach him a lesson. Ann becomes his nurse and gives him a strong mixture of vinegar and orange juice while Kate puts a very hot cloth on his arm. Mark does not like this treatment. He also realizes that his friends know the truth. So he gets up and starts cleaning the room.
BURGLARS Kate could not open the door as it is locked from inside Mrs. Yates informs about burglars in the street So she had locked it from inside Ann, Kate and Mrs. Yates hear a noise and are scared--- Think it is a burglar find Ted, who is hungry They still hear a noise in a room--- Someone comes out--- Ted holds him tightly but it is Mark He could not come in as the door was locked---so comes in through the window Ted informs them that Mark is the burglar He has gone out of the window of his room They wait for Mark to come Mrs Yates has seen a real burglar in the room Mrs. Yates warns Ted that burglars are dangerous Ted wants to catch him thinking that it is Mark Ted takes a cloth--- enters the room quietly and from behind puts it over the man s head and pushes him on the sofa Mark comes in through the other window They realize their mistake and go to help Ted Ted has already caught the man still does not know the fact--Sees Mark and shouts for help Mrs. Yates calls the police
