Note taking is very important when it comes to school or college, some people find note taking extremely helpful. While I'm in college I find if I don't take notes during lectures I forget what the subject was that we were just discussing. I take notes in a format of I put my heading of what we are talking about and then have sub headings of the topics within the topic that we are talking about.
There are loads of different ways to take effective notes, a few of my friends notes are very structured and have to be colour coded and in a certain way. This is the way which helps them, I try to stick to two basic colours so not to distract myself from the actual text. Other peoples notes are all over the place, just random words on the page, but these obviously make sense to them. Being honest, I would rather have my notes layed out in a way that anyone can understand them, this way there would be no confusion if I went back to read my notes three or four months later.
In communications we learnt different forms of note-taking, the way I take notes was not one of them, I find the forms we learnt too complicated when your in a hurry and trying to get down all the information. Note taking should be more about the content rather than the layout. Once it makes sense and can be understood, it works for me.
Good post really interesting
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