How to making a notes

1}  Note-Taking and Note-Making

*Both the skills are totally different.

*Note-taking is a passive process undertaken during lectures - Note-taking at a glance gives a complete view of a paragraph or any content containing the main points and supporting details of what is heard (during lectures or speech).

*Taking notes while reading from different books and presentations for different purposes.

*Note-making is a more active and focused "writing skill' where a concrete connection between all relevant concepts and words is drawn to infuse or connect all thoughts by a method. (points, tree diagram, or a table, etc.)

Ways of making notes

a) Annotation

1) Suitable for print materials, i.e., Print modules, textbooks, articles.
2) Make notes by writing in the margins, underlining facts, highlighting the main points, etc.
3) Help to remember the main points without having to read the text all over again.

b) Outline notes

1) Using only keywords and phrases.
2) Usually sequentially numbered or headings and subheadings.

c) Column notes

1) More appropriate for mathematics and science courses.

d) Mind maps

1) Show relationships among ideas and concepts, with lines serving as links.
2) Do not follow a linear sequence.

e) Summary notes

1) A condensed version of the information, written in paragraph form, using your own words.
2) Used when you cannot impose headings or subheadings for a text.

Note Making Skills

•Note making is an important reading skill.

•It involves the identification of the main idea or Governing
Thought, supported by relevant data and specific information.

•Notes are usually made to record a speech or dictation while listening to it to refer back to reproduce in the desired way.

•While reproducing the details, the text of the notes, the meaning of the draft, or the speech remains the same. It should not be distorted.

•Personal comments or views should not be included while explaining the notes.

WHY Note is Necessary

•Knowledge is advancing and expanding so fast that we have to learn it With the same speed. The human mind is not a computing machine to store all the knowledge imparted. We have to take notes and develop them into our details to prepare and make maximum, and the best use of our teacher's lesson or lecture is the outcome of their learned valuable labor.

•Notes, therefore, are very important for almost all educated persons, teachers, lawyers, doctors, and students.

Essential Characteristics of Notes

1] They are short

2] Complete Information

3] Use Short Forms

4] Logical

Note making format:-

Heading/ Title of the Topic

1. Sub-heading 1

        1. i. Point 1

        1. ii. Sub sub-heading 

                   1. a.  Sub point i

                   1. b.  Subpoint ii

       1. iii. Point 2

2. Sub-heading 2 

        2.i. Point 2

        2.ii. sub-sub-heading

                   2.a. Sub point i

                   2.b. Subpoint ii

         2. III.  Point 2 

Key

Gov.-government

Info.-Information

*Note making is very easily 

*Not making hard  very simple 

[Styles of Note-Making]

•Tables, Charts (Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Flow Charts), Line Graph, Tree.

•Diagrams, Pictograms, Maps, and Plans.