Reading & summarising
To make sure you understand the information you have collected, follow some basic rules:
- Read through each source. Take careful notes as you go.
- Write down the relevant points in your own words.
- Read through your summaries to ensure that you are clear regarding the details and implications of what you have read.
The Academic Skills Office at UNE has a fact sheet on notetaking. TUNEup also includes a page on notetaking, which incorporates extensive discussion of different note-taking approaches.
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Note-making & summary writing Read and complete the activities on note-making and summary writing in Academic writing: a practical guide for students. |
The Academic Support Center at St Thomas University in Minnesota has some useful handouts on learning to read faster and how to read difficult material.
One frequently used method for taking notes of lectures is the Cornell note-taking system. Although invented as long ago as the 1950s, this method has become extremely popular in the United States in recent years. Wikipedia has an article on this method.
