Note Taking

Ask your students to look over a set of their notes and highlight examples of abbreviations they are currently using in their notes:
- Endings are dropped from long words (e.g., indiv for individual)
- Internal vowels and/or consonants are dropped (E.g., dbl for double)
- Standard abbreviations are used (e.g., lb for pound)
- Scientific or other symbols are included (e.g., = for is)
- Creative spelling is used (e.g., pix for picture)
Discuss how these strategies have improved their note taking. (For example, they were able to write more quickly, they could take down more information, they focused more attention on the lecture itself, etc.)