Description:
Updated and revised edition
As every student quickly learns, merely sitting through a class and paying attention is usually not sufficient to ensure good grades. The proper taking of good notes is essential. Note-Taking Made Easy tells why the student should take his or her own notes (rather than buying them or taping lectures), and tells exactly how to determine what is worth noting, whether during a lecture, classroom discussion, even from a book or during a meeting.
The authors describe the two most successful methods of organizing notes--outlining and patterning--and provide shortcuts to really make note-taking easy, from shorthand devices to abbreviations.
Special sections are devoted to taking notes from texts, fiction as well as nonfiction, and handling charts, graphs, and photos. A final chapter shows how to tie together notes from various sources.
Brief description:
Judi Kesselman-Turkel writes and publishes the newsletter CPA Computer Report. She has written hundreds of articles and more than twenty books including The Author's Handbook, Good Writing, and The Magazine Writer's Handbook. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Review Quotes:
"There is excellent advice on how to read a nonfiction book . . . [and] hints on how to keep your mind on the business at hand... The book is inexpensive, written in a chatty style, and printed in larger than usual type... I recommend it enthusiastically... because next to a blow dryer, this little soft-covered book is the best thing to tuck into that college-bound bag." -- Bernice Roer Neal, Culpeper Virginia News