Effective notetaking

Being a successful student is far more about being a smart user of effective strategies than about being ‘smart’. In fact it is possible to predict how well a student will do simply on the basis of their use of study strategies. This workbook (one of a series on study skills) looks at the most important group of study strategies — taking notes. Notetaking encompasses many strategies, not simply the obvious ones such as how to format your notes, use headings and highlighting, how to summarize, how to review your notes, but also the more complex ones of how to evaluate text to work out which strategy is appropriate, and how to ask the right questions. As always with the Mempowered books, this thorough (and fully referenced) workbook doesn’t re-hash the same tired advice that’s been peddled for so long, but is based on the last decades’ work of cognitive and educational researchers. Today we know a lot more detail about the ways in which text and images can be used to optimise learning, and this book aims to teach you how to use this information to become a better learner.