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Note taking skills
Note taking skills
1. Integration, not transcription2. Organizing (titles, subtitles)3. Use of abbreviations4. Notation of principle mesage and main ideas
Note taking skills
Step 1: determine the principal ideaStep 2: determination od structure and offsets –titles, subtitles, questionsStep 3: text analysis and information selection, discarding all unnecessary materialsStep 4: distribution of materials into offsetsStep 5: emphasing trigger-information ( by picture, drawing, illustration od color)
Steps 1 i 2: Structuring
Outline the notes structureSelect the material to be learned Compose the frame in which the marerial should be accomodated
Important information should be written on the left side, details on the right
Malaria deninition
Significance
Causative agent
Disease vectorAnopheles Gambiae
Tropic/sub tropic contagious diseaseIncidence: 350-500 millions yearlyPlasmodium falciparum; P. malariae; P. ovale; P. vivax; P. knowles
Plasmodium falciparum
Steps 1 & 2: Strukturing
Before we start phase 3, titles, subtitles and all main ideas should be determined
Step 3: Information selection
1. Browsing the entire text2. Identify what is important3. Find out the prominent parts of material4. Find out the titles, subtitles, ideas5. Find out the auxiliary visual materials (maps,
tables, graphs, illustrations and pictures) 6. Focus on summary and questions
Step 4: Branching the information
Step 4: Branching of information
Step 5: Emphasizing
“Triggering” information one should emphasize by drawing, picture pr callor
Essence of good notes: summarizing
1. Information synthesis, not transcription2. Interpretation of information in one
personal, individual lingo 3. Notes should be clear, understandable,
good-looking4. Supported by good examples and by5. Multimedia
Abbreviations & Symbols
Good notes: Abbreviations
“Robert Koch (1843.-1910.) is German bacteriologist, founding-father of bacteriology as a scientific discipline. He discovered in 1876 anthrax bacilli, and in 1882 tuberculosis bacilli.”
Good notes: Abbreviations
“Koch, 19 cent., bact., antrax, tbc.”
Good notes: Hierarchy
All facts and ideas, which are noted, do not have same importance and value
Good notes: Format
Mathematics
1. Introductory information2. The statement in form of mathematic law, axiom or theoreme3. Explanatory examples4. Illustrating exersises, which should be solved.
Good notes: Format
Medicine1. Ethiology2. Pathoanatomy3. Pathophysiology4. Clinical picture (with subdivision on general and
specific symptoms, signs and syndorome)5. Diagnostic procedures6. Complications7. Prognosis8. Therapeutic options
Creativity
Use with notes pictures drawings, arrows, mathematical symbols, different colors, different forts and size of letters, geomelry symbols, etc.