Study Skills for Higher Education Assessment 1 (GC02015)
Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction.
2.0 Discussion and evaluation.
2.1 Importance of taking notes.
2.2 Significance of the stages mentioned in the article above: before, during and after
2.3 How is “Note Taking” an essential feature of academic life.
2.4 Identify and evaluate some of the different methods students can use to take notes.
3.0 Conclusion.
References.
1.0 Introduction
Study skills gather various kinds of skills and expertness like collecting new and numerous topics and subjects, keeping and allocating information and data those are helpful for the better learning process and academic performance. Higher study skills are most essential because these skills are supportive for both academic and personal life for success. Appropriate study skills can expand the self-confidence and capability of the students (Waugh, 2018). These skills also are helpful for the time distribution of the study and personal time because the proper arrangement of these skills makes study easy for the students so that they can acquire target success in a comparatively short time. The key point of these skills and expertness is they aid the enlarging learning abilities and gaining knowledge and information. This paper generally discusses the abundant importance of notes taking and it’s’ effective ways and methods that facilitate academic life.
2.0 Discussion and evaluate
2.1 Importance of taking notes
To be a good student and make good academic results the importance of taking notes inappropriate way is huge. There are lots of importance and benefits of taking notes. Among them, two main importance is taking notes increases the concentration of the students and also aids them to understand the study and tasks. Others important are it effective to develop cognitive processing, retention and memories and also efficient to gather and arrange the required information and data for further studies (Collins, 2019). Taking notes in the classroom helps the students alert that prevents them to be distracted. Students can enlarge their listening skills attentively by taking notes. This is very helpful for the students to better understand the textbooks and emphasizes what is most important and what is less. Overall taking notes is one kind of part and parcel for the better study and excellent results and its significance is lots.
2.2 Significance of the stages mentioned in the article above: before, during and after
Before
For effectual note-taking in the class students should prepare themselves before the class begins. A research analysis found that if the students study the specific chapter before their professor’s discussion it would be very helpful for the students to understand and catch the idea and concept easily because for the earlier study they can gain some of the knowledge of this chapter and teacher’s elaborate discussion and analysis that aids them to make sense and affluent understanding (Newman, 2019). Before the class starts students can choose an appropriate seat where they can easily hear and see. Any kind of electronics device is required to be switched off because these can create distractions for taking notes. Another essential part is students need to ensure they have all kinds of required elements for taking notes like pens, paper, textbooks………………………………..