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Getting the most out of lectures

Be prepared, keep notes brief, organise and review your notes

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Effective reading techniques

Tackle your course reading. Read more strategically, actively and critically.

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Making notes from reading

Why and how we make notes. Including lots of examples and tools

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Seven ways to make notes

Take lecture/reading notes in a new way today

Reading technologies

Free apps and plug-ins to enhance your reading skills

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1 - Prepare

Get an overview of complex topics through accessible sources e.g. video, TV, podcast, simpler book or discussion with friends.

2 - Read ‘actively’

Have questions in mind.
see Critical Thinking

3 - Strategies

SQ3R method.
Read in short bursts (stay focused).
Keep checking it makes sense.
Be prepared to read texts several times.

4 - Use technology

There are tools/apps for:

Reading text out loud.
Tinting the screen.
Changing font, spacing and size.
Learning to speed read.
Annotating texts.
Referencing.

5 - Take smarter notes

Re-format texts as bullet points, mind maps, diagrams or audio notes.
Make quotations stand out from your words.
Use abbreviations.
Make glossaries of new words.

Reading and Notemaking