Learn from four peer tutors about common styles of note taking including outlines, printed lecture slides, flowcharts, mind-maps and helpful apps.

Am I taking good notes? Is there something I'm missing? Good notes can transform your university studies, yet many students haven’t been taught how to take them effectively. Hint: effective notetaking ...

Most students take a laptop with them to lectures. But are there times when they might be better off taking a pad and pen?

You’ll absorb and retain more information if you take notes by hand, according to a study by UCLA, giving you an edge on your tests. That spiral-bound stack of paper has other advantages, too: You can ...

To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand Students do worse on quizzes when they use keyboards in class.

People who write notes by hand remember the content of meetings and lectures better than those who use laptops, new research shows.

Dust off those Bic ballpoints and college-ruled notebooks: research shows that taking notes by hand is better than taking notes on a laptop for remembering conceptual information over the long ...

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Tracey reported that taking notes prevented students from critically engaging in lectures because often, students were preoccupied with copying down the lecture slides or recording what the ...