1. Guidelines for Notetaking
Do not try to write down everything the speaker says. Stick to:
**main ideas
**details that support or relate to the main ideas.
Take notes in phrases, not in complete sentences.
*Begin each phrase with a capital letter.

2. Remember to:
capitalize proper nouns.
Use abbreviations or symbols when you can. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW
WHAT THEY MEAN!!!!!!!
begin main ideas at the left margin.
write supporting details under the main ideas.
Use a dash (-) at the beginning of each supporting details.

3. Notetaking: Informative and Persuasive Writing
Conflicts, questions or issues
Similarities and differences
Causes and effects
Questions posed and answers given
Steps in processes
Opinions and facts presented
Title and author
Subject/ topic
Purpose of the selection
Thesis – major point of the selection as a whole
Significant
people and places
facts and figures
events

4. Notetaking: Narratives
Title and author
Major characters
Conflict
Motivations
Important events
Setting
Theme