Text 3
Unit 1 Evaluation on Your Note-taking Skills 3
Section 1 Listen and take notes 4
Section 2 Do the exercises according to your notes 4
Section 3 Make evaluation on your notes 5
Unit 2 Introduction to Listening and Note-taking 8
Section 1 Listening and note-taking 8
Section 2 The skills of note-taking in listening 10
Section 3 The process of lecture comprehension 11
Unit 3 Basic Note-taking Skills 1 14
Section 1 Choose key words to write 14
Section 2 Distinguish main points from supporting details 17
Section 3 Recognize tangents 25
Unit 4 Basic Note-taking Skills 2 27
Section 1 Use note-taking symbols and abbreviations 27
Section 2 Organize while you are taking notes 33
Unit 5 Basic Note-taking Skills 3 38
Note numbers and statistics 38
Unit 6 Listening for Organization within Lectures 1 45
Section 1 Introduction 46
Section 2 Organization within lectures 48
Section 3 Conclusion 50
Unit 7 Listening for Organization within Lectures 2 52
Section 1 Breaking a topic down into subtopics by enumerating or listing 54
Section 2 Breaking a topic down into subtopics by classifying 61
Unit 8 Listening for Organization within Lectures 3 71
Section 1 Describing a process or sequence of events 71
Section 2 Describing the causal relationship between events 75
Unit 9 Listening for Organization within Lectures 4 81
Section 1 Describing characteristics 81
Section 2 Making a generalization and providing evidence 88
Unit 10 Listening Comprehension and Note-taking Practice 94
Lecture 1 Acid Rain 95
Lecture 2 Nicotine 97
Lecture 3 Origin and Diversity 99
Lecture 4 The World's Changing Climate:Fire or Ice? 102
Lecture 5 Perfectionism 105
Transcript 111
Key and outline 217