Taking Notes From Textbook
Remembering Textbook Details
Reading Your Textbook
Understanding Your Class Notes
Campus Resources
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Should you write down every detail from your textbook?
No, summarize what you read in your own words
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Name a strategy you use to retain information from your textbook?
1. Teach it to someone else
2. Stop and jot
3. Highlight importance sentences
4. Summarize paragraphs in your own words
5. Look up words you don't know
6. Write down questions as you read
+ SO MANY MORE STRATEGIES
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What should you do when you come across a word you don't know the meaning to?
Look it up! Learn what the word means and how it is used in the sentence.
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What are some tools you can use when taking notes in class?
Notebook, highlighters, sticky notes
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Where should you go if you don't have your class textbook?
There are multiple ways to get your textbook!
First, check out the campus library. They may have your text book that you can use while you're there.
Check out the Online Bookstore at stlcc.textbookx.com
Or Chegg or Amazon
Ask a friend to borrow!
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FUN FACT: where can you print FOR FREE?!
In the campus library! Just sign into your account!
200
What is an easy way to remember something in your text?
Many ways! You can make a connection to the information in the text!
200
Do you need to read the whole chapter of your textbook that was assigned?
Not always. Focus on assigned sections and prioritize what the professor emphasizes.
200
Who is someone on campus that can sit down with you and go over your notes?
Tutoring!
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Who is someone on campus that can help you understand your textbook chapters?
Tutoring or your professor! Visit your professor during office hours.
300
What is a type of note-taking method that involves drawings, symbols, and text to capture and organize ideas?
Sketchnoting 
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If you had a sticky note, pencil, and your textbook. What can you do with it while reading through your textbook?
STOP and jot. Read a paragraph, then write down key details on the sticky note.
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What can you do if you're having a hard time understanding the reading in textbook?
1. Take a break and come back to it
2. Visit your professor during office hours for support
3. Read with a friend
4. Go to tutoring and read with a tutor
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What is something you can do BEFORE class with your notes?
Reread notes from last class or pre-read the textbook.
300
Where is a place you and your classmates can go to to study the textbook together?
Student commons, study booths
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What are the 3 things you should focus on when taking notes from the textbook?
1. Capture main ideas
2. Understand key terms
3. Use bullet points for examples
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Name three strategies you can use to help retain information from your textbook
1. Teach it to someone else
2. Stop and jot
3. Highlight importance sentences
4. Summarize paragraphs in your own words
5. Look up words you don't know
6. Write down questions as you read
+ SO MANY MORE STRATEGIES
400
What are the 4 steps you should take when approaching a chapter in a textbook?
1. Skim the headings
2. Understand the bold terms
3. Look at the visuals
4. Read for details
400
Did you know there are many notetaking strategies that you can use? Have you tried to figure out which strategy is the best?
I will definitely take the QR code and look into that!
400
Who is someone you can go to for research help?
Jessica Pohl in the library
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How do you know what to take note of while reading your textbook?
When you come across..
1. subheadings
2. bold or italicized words
3. diagrams or tables
4. When there is a good example of something
5. Is a topic in your notes from class
6. If you can't summarize the paragraph
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What strategy are you using when you stop after reading a chapter and explain the chapter in your own words?
summarizing! This is something you can do after reading a paragraph as well.
500
Give me a summary of this article!
Title: How Do Organized Interests Influence Politics and Policy
"To make their voices heard, most people must act with others. That is why interests organize themselves. By organizing themselves for action, organized interests improve the probability that the claims they make on government will be heard and treated favorably. This quest for political influence takes many forms, which we can roughly divide into "insider strategies" and "outsider strategies."
-American Government Power and Purpose
Did you:
1. Identify the key points?
2. Summarize in your own words?
3. Keep it concise?
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Share something helpful that you do while taking notes
- use abbreviations
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What is a First Year Fest event coming up that will give you time/resources to study for finals?
Break With A Book!!!! November 20th 12-2