SU/CORNELL vs. 1 PLUS 3

First of all, I like to reinforce how important note taking is. It is a major part of keeping a good study habit. Note taking, which is usually done during lectures/class period or time of studying, is the process of filling up those blank pages into something that can connect with you and your intellectual. I learned that notes are not just bullet point, incomplete sentences. They are whatever you can do in order to help you understand and absorb the materials.

SU/Cornell note taking strategy attracted my eyes. It was the process of completing the day's or the certain chapter's notes. The notes I took in PSY 205 were very simple. I thought it would help to be simple but when I looked over them again after the class, I thought there were just too many details missing. They all stated the main points and topics clearly and usually I tend to study the details through reading through my books again. However, there were important things that I should always keep in my mind along with these main topics that were missing in the notes. As I skimmed through the chapter, I saw a lot of information that could be added, and that is why I chose to use this method. I had the freedom of filling the corresponding information in the margin. Then on the very top, I had to make another box for summarizing my notes. For the summay part, I did not actually summarize them into a "paragraph" form. As you can see, it is not too wordy, as I do not like to get wordy when looking over them again. What I did was I made arrows for the topics and concepts that are interrelated with each other. If I was to write a summary in a paragraph, I would, but this PSY 205 notes was not the right type of notes to write a bunch of sentences with. This helped me into understanding and having a stronger grasp on the chapter because I usually do not take notes by myself. But when I actually tried and did write them out, it helped me learn and memorize them fully. I liked how I chose not to write too much because then it would only take more of my time away. The side notes really helped me in remembering the key points and understanding them.

I have utilized the 1 PLUS 3 note taking strategy into my HTW 221 course. In this course, and in this particular chapter, there was a lot of information to be covered and learned. So the notes became kind of wordy. I put the SU/Cornell Strategy into effect for the notes I wrote on the first page. On the margins, I wrote details that should be remembered along with the concepts. This tactic of adding into your notes really help me in a lot of ways. I do not need to read every word by word, I could just skim through the margins and see what is included in the notes and what is important, the key concepts.

On the opposite side of the notes, I made the actual 1 PLUS 3 NOTES. Part A consists of concepts of the topics of the notes, Part B is the graphic organizer, and Part C is the questions that I made myself. This strategy is really helpful because all 3 of them are included in one page, and I can go back and each every one of them, and see how all the concepts are interrelated. It may take up a lot of worktime, but during the time when I was writing them out and forming them, it was the actual study time for me. I learned during the process of filling up this page. This helps me greatly because I can learn my topics from 3 DIFFERENT categories, which seems very fine for the visual learners. The questions I make, and the outline of the topics on Part A just sorts out perfectly!