🔼: # Literature Notes --- These are the notes we take as we read a text or listen to a lecture, writing everything we want to remember or think might be useful. We keep it concise, we're selective, and we [[Write notes in our own words]]. Taking notes in real-time during a lecture is a simple skill that can be learned and honed, but it relies heavily on our [[💡 Executive Function]] and requires practice, so, generally speaking, [[Texts are better than Lectures]]. We have to: 1. [[💡 Focus & Concentration]] to listen carefully, 2. [[Get the gist]] and hold it in our [[💡 Working Memory]] until the idea fully forms, and 3. [[Write notes in our own words]] while the teacher continues to talk. Once these notes are complete they can be metabolized into [[💡 Permanent Notes]]. If that's beyond our abilities, we can try a few other things: [[🦮 How to Study|Active Recall]]: Listen in class / read the book, and then write notes with the book closed. Then go back and see what you were missing, and it to the notes. Use [[🛠 Mind Maps]] The gaps in the information encourage [[🦮 How to Study|Active Recall]]. Cornel Notes: Ask yourself questions and try to answer them. 1. Divide a piece of paper into thirds. 2. Write only in the left third. Only what you need to remember what the lecturer is saying. Keywords, Dates, Pictures, etc. 3. Right after class or ASAP, use the other two thirds to rewrite the lecture in your own words, using the left column to cue your knowledge. - Encourages Review Immediately - Allows Us To Focus on Learning in Class - Helps Us with [[💡 Recoding]] - [[💡 Encoding]] information is easier if it's not completely foreign to us. - Ask about [[🛠 Accommodations]] ## Related [[🦮 How to Take Good Notes]], [[⭐️ Learning]]