A good strategy of note taking in class will pay off in terms of effectiveness and time savings.

You can develop your own system based on a few elementary strategies: (1) Get a good loose leaf notebook. This will enable you to add, delete, and re-sequence pages and materials.

Think in terms of three main sections:

(1) A central space or identifying the main points

(2)capturing the main ideas not quoting the lecturer

(3)a marginal space for editing or annotating what you have written, linking information from the text or other sources, adding definitions.

(4)a "condensing" or summary section