ABBREVIATIONS AND NOTE TAKING
PRESENTED BY THE ELMHURST COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER
Many students find it difficult to take notes because they cannot keep up with the instructor. They believe that they write too slowly or they cannot follow the instructor's points quickly enough to make sense of the information. BUT remember there is the differential between thought speed and speech speed.(See Effective Listening Skills for more about this.)
If you truly believe that you are just too slow, you need to learn some techniques to build up your "speed writing" while taking notes. Developing a personal system of abreviations or symbols is the easiest way.
Examples:
psy = psychology
educ = education
bio = biology
& = and
> = greater than
There are three causes of the Civil War.
BECOMES
3 causes = CW
YOUR TURN (Jot down your answers and then check at the bottom of this section for the answers.)
1. chemistry =
2. estimate =
3. individual =
4. against =
5. theology =
6. with =
7. pound =
8. background =
9. number =
10.money =
You may now check your answers with the suggested answers. But it is possible that the answers do not agree. This disagreement is not that big of a problem. What is important is that YOU are CONSISTENT with your system.
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ANSWERS - REMEMBER, NO PEEKING!
1. chem
2. est
3. ind
4. ag OR vs
5. theo
6. w/
7. lb
8. bkgrd
9. #
10.$