Annotating
Notetaking
Summarizing
Outlining
Mapping
100
A system of marking that includes underlining and notations.
What is annotating?
100
Involves using your own words and a separate notebook to condense the ideas you have marked in your text while annotating.
What is notetaking?
100
A short concise method of stating the main idea and significant supporting details of the material.
What is a summary?
100
A form of notetaking that gives a quick display of key issues and essential supporting details.
What is outlining?
100
Visually condenses material to show relationships.
What is mapping?
200
A statement that directly supports the main idea.
What is major details?
200
Useful for textbook study and class lectures.
What is when to take notes?
200
After assigned readings from texts, essays, or periodicals.
What is when to summarize?
200
Displayed by the use of indentations, numbers, and letters.
What is level of importance?
200
Places important topics in a central location and connects major points and supporting details in a visual display that shows degrees of importance.
What is a diagram?
300
After a complete thought is presented.
What is when to annotate?
300
One of the most popular systems of notetaking.
What is The Cornell Method?
300
_______ should never be as long as the piece being read.
What is a summary?
300
Used to take notes on a textbook chapter or a class lecture or for brainstorming the answer for a possible essay question.
What is when to outline?
300
To reduce information for memorizing from lecture notes and the text.
What is when to map?
400
Used to identify a word you must be able to define.
What is a circle?
400
Short cuts that help develop your own system of notetaking.
What is abbreviation?
400
A general statement, the main idea, that unites the key ideas.
What is the beginning of a summary?
400
The greater distance from the left margin and item is listed.
What is significance a detail is afforded?
400
A quick reference for overviewing a chapter to stimulate prior knowledge, emphasize relationships, and aid recall.
What is a map?
500
Used in annotating to signify major trends or possible test questions.
What is a star?
500
Located on the left side of the paper, helpful in organizing the study of a large body of material for a final exam.
What is marginal topic notes?
500
Use your own words to show your understanding of the material.
What is how to write a summary?
500
To save time for later study and review.
What is why to outline?
500
Not restricted to any one pattern but can be formed in a variety of creative shapes.
What is Maps?
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