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Making notes activelyWhy is this section about notemaking rather than notetaking? It is an important distinction. Notemaking implies an active process of construction: of selecting only those ideas that you find relevant, and arranging them in meaningful ways. Notetaking, on the other hand, is a passive process. Good thinkers are ACTIVE learners. They never passively take in knowledge or simply reproduce it. They think about information, relate it to their previous knowledge, and they reformulate it in new concepts and patterns. Try to see the patterns behind the connecting ideas, and then rearrange the material in a form which corresponds to this. This provides a very efficient and effective method of notemaking. The shape of knowledgeVerbal information has a shape. Ideas are connected to one another in ways that suggest visual patterns and diagrams. Some of these patterns are:
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