CORNELL in STEPS

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Content retention

Defy the curve of forgetting!

Have you even taken a test yet?

FORMAT your PAPER

Make the LINE

Head your notes ( follow each teachers preference)

This is MLA format:StudentTeacherClassDate

TAKE the NOTES

Paraphrase

Leave space between ideas

Indent

EDIT your NOTES

Clarify content

EDIT again – use a new strategy

Highlight terms

and EDIT again

ETC!• Underline main ideas• Cross out unimportant• Create symbols

Organize Ideas

USE the NOTES

Use the left column

What are the steps of the scientific method?

GET to the POINTHead notes with topic sentence and/or essential questionSummarize or reflect to

close

Use CORNELL to beat the curve

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSt4MZzCrLo “Can’t Study This”