1. WS 1.3 Initial Instruction AMERICA
Note-Taking
WS 1.3 Initial Instruction AMERICA

2. WS 1.3 Organization and Focus: use strategies of note-taking, outlining, and summarizing to impose structure on composition drafts. outlining, and summarizing to impose structure on composition drafts

3. Note-Taking
Purpose: Knowing which facts to record and how to organize them is a skill that you can use when you research any topic Defined: A way to collect information from sources

4. Types of Note-Taking
Notes

5. Notes Taking down complete sentences is not necessary
Explained:
Writing down only the main ideas and supporting details
Taking down complete sentences is not necessary
Best used when capturing the essential elements of the lecture or presentation is desired

6. Types of Note-Taking
Outlining

7. Outlining Uses Roman numerals for the main ideas
Explained:
Arranging main ideas and supporting details in a logical order
Uses Roman numerals for the main ideas
Uses capital letters for subtopics
Uses Arabic numerals for the details
Effective method of structuring draft before writing

8. Types of Note-Taking
Paraphrasing

9. Paraphrasing
Explained:
Using your own words to restate someone else’s ideas
Used often to replace quotations and dialogue to clarify text
When using cards for research, effective way of organizing ideas into categories by sorting cards by main ideas

10. Types of Note-Taking
Summarizing

11. Summarizing Must include the main ideas and the most important details
Explained:
Condensing the text to include the most important information
Must include the main ideas and the most important details
Can be written from an outline
Summarizing is capturing the essential ideas of the passage, as opposed to re-telling the whole passage.

12. Types of Note-Taking
Tips

13. Tips Headings can help distinguish main ideas from supporting details
Explained:
Skim the article or articles
Use any text organizers to locate and organize information
Pay special attention to headings
Headings can help distinguish main ideas from supporting details

14. Note-Taking Examples
Sample Text

15. Sample Text
Advances in Astronomy In 1543 an astronomer published a book that contradicted what a Greek authority had written. Many historians think the publication of this book marks the beginning of the Scientific Revolution.

16. Sample Text
Nicolaus Copernicus The book thought to have marked the beginning of the Scientific Revolution was written by a Polish astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus. His 1543 book was called On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres.

17. Sample Text
Copernicus was familiar with Ptolemy’s theories and writings. Ptolemy had written that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun and other planets orbited, or circled around, the earth. For 1,400 years, people accepted this belief as fact.

18. Sample Text
Copernicus tried a different explanation for what he observed in the sky. Copernicus practiced science. He proposed that the sun was the center of the universe, and that the planets, including earth, orbited it, making the concept much simpler. Rather than trying to make his observation fit the old theory, he introduced a new, different theory, thus initiating the Scientific Revolution.

19. Note-Taking Examples
Notes

20. Notes Advances in astronomy 1543 – book contradicts Greek authority
Book started the Scientific Revolution
Written by Nicolaus Copernicus
On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
Earth center of universe, not sun
Went against Ptolemy (Greek astronomer)
New, different theory credited with starting Scientific Revolution

21. Note-Taking Examples
Outlining

22. Outlining A. Nicolaus Copernicus
I. Advances in Astronomy
A. Nicolaus Copernicus
Wrote a book, On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, which contradicted Ptolemy’s theory of the earth as the center of the universe.
His theory proposed the sun as the center of the universe, with the planets, including earth, orbiting around it.
3. His different theory initiated the Scientific Revolution

23. Note-Taking Examples
Paraphrasing

24. Paraphrasing
Until 1543, people still accepted the Greek astronomer’s, Ptolemy’s, explanation of the movement of planets and the sun. Nicolaus Copernicus, though, changed that with the introduction of his book On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres. Rather than the earth as the center of the universe, as previously believed, Copernicus proposed the sun as the center. Not only did this new and different theory start advances in astronomy, it founded the Scientific Revolution.

25. Note-Taking Examples
Summarizing

26. Summarizing
Advances in astronomy began in 1543 with a book, On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres by Nicholas Copernicus, which contradicted Greek authority, primarily Ptolemy, placing the sun at the center of the universe rather than the earth, thus launching the Scientific Revolution.