NOTETAKING

Taking good notes is really part of overall strategy (that is, figuring out what you want to get out of your university years, learning to read and listen critically, test and essay preparation etc). Here are some good resources on academic skills in general: http://www.lifelearning.utexas.edu/l_handouts.html#StrategicLearning

Specifically, here is a very good handout on note-taking: http://academic.udayton.edu/legaled/online/class/note04.htm

Video overview (with simplified Cornell method)  http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/videos/video_nt.html

Brief overview and evaluation of types/styles of notetaking: http://www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/notetakingsystems.html and tips

http://www.sas.calpoly.edu/asc/ssl/notetakingtips.html

A very comprehensive site : http://www.muskingum.edu/~cal/database/general/notetaking1.html

http://www.stjosephsps.org/images/thinking_skills_icons/mind_maps/mind_map_example.jpg

http://www.mindmap.com/population_and_pollution_mindmap.jpg

BOOKS:

**Tony Buzan Use Both Sides of Your Brain NY Dutton 1983 UCLA LB1049 .B85 1983)

Use Your Head ucsc LB1049.B85 1982

Mindmap Book BF431 .B883 1993 (not ucsc)

****Ellis, David B. Becoming a Master Student UCSC McH BF455 .R835 1989

**Wycoff, Joyce Mindmapping NY Penguin 1991

updated 9.11

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