Department of Lifelong Learning: Study Skills Series Note taking skills - from lectures and readings Introduction When you are at university‚ the sheer amount of information that is delivered to you can be daunting and confusing. You may even think that you have to copy down everything you hear or read. When you are at a face-to -face lecture it is sometimes difficult to tell what is important and what is not. Distance learning students might feel the need to copy out fact after fact from
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Risk Taking “C’mon! Another can’t hurt!” called Bob. At only 17 years of age I had been reluctant to have a drink‚ but I couldn’t stop the might of peer pressure. I hesitantly took another can‚ but before I knew it Bob was on the ground‚ moaning and bleeding all over the place in the midst of a brawl. We’ve all been in this situation before where there’s been too much alcohol consumed but how often‚ especially for teenagers‚ does this apparently harmless fun‚ end in tragedy? Young people are hospitalised
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The Last Taboo What unites the Vatican‚ lefties‚ conservatives‚ environmentalists‚ and scientists in a conspiracy of silence? It’s midnight on the streets of Calcutta. Old women cook over open fires on the sidewalks. Men wait in line at municipal hand pumps to lather skin‚ hair‚ and lungis (skirts)‚ bathing without undressing. Girls sit in the open beds of bicycle-powered trucks‚ braiding their hair. The monsoon’s not yet over‚ and grandfathers under umbrellas squat on their
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Taking Chances How do you feel about sharing secrets with someone you’ve technically never met? Or saying how your life is to someone that you haven’t even seen face-to-face? What about…going to the extent of falling in love with that anonymous stranger? For some people‚ these things seem out of reach but actually‚ making a friend from the internet is quite thrilling. I know that most people would immediately say‚ “That’s so dangerous‚ I’d better not ever do that.”‚ but actually
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Taking notes during lectures is very beneficial to students in a number of ways. One‚ which is to remember and it will save student time relying on memory later on. You can be an amazing listener‚ but unless you have good note taking skills‚ it will be hard for you to remember what the teacher said in previous lectures. For notes to become useful‚ they should be well structured and you can go through them over and over so that the information remains fresh days prior to the exam. Reviewing and
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The Taking of Christ A good artist needs only a solitary moment in time to illustrate a story authors spend pages telling. A freeze frame‚ an instant: all that is necessary for a painting to reveal the intricacies of a subject’s thoughts and emotions and the general themes that surround them. An artist must choose a significant moment and portray it in a way that captures its essence‚ while promoting the contemplation and discussion of its viewers. Few moments have more significance in Christian
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it is better to live a life in which risks are taken. The reasons are as follows: I am one who subscribe to the saying “no venture‚ no gain.” Only when we take the risks‚ do we realize our full potential. Take learning to swim‚ for example. In order to learn to swim we must plunge into the water first. Initially‚ we might swallow a bit of water and become disoriented‚ but gradually our natural ability will take over and we feel at home in the water. If instead of taking the risk of plunging into
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USMLE/ COMLEX Step 1 Plan Table of Contents Basic Timeline…………………………………………………………Page 2 Review Books and other Study Materials……………………………..Page 3 Question Sources………………………………………………………Page 4 Basic Sciences…………………………………………………………Page 5 Systems………………………………………………………………...Page 6 Last 2 Weeks…………………………………………………………..Page 7 COMLEX-specific Info………………………………………………Page 10 General Pointers……………………………………………………...Page 10 Question Answering Advice………………………………………….Page 10 Week Before‚ Day Before‚ Day
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and only write down the important information given. Studies show that having important information inside notes gives the learner a 34% chance in being remembered (Longman‚ D. & Atkins ‚ R.‚ 1991). This essay will give a couple of different ways of taking notes and learning new material. In order to learn one must simply study the material that you need to learn. It seems so simple but if one does not like to study or take notes they will not do well in school. They just leave it at lectures and
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Taking on the World Background Ellen MacArthur achieved fame as a yachtswoman‚ breaking the world record for a solo circumnavigation of the globe by a woman in 2001 and by anyone in 2005. Her writing is autobiographical‚ a true story in which she describes her attempt to repair the mast. The key to understanding this passage is being able to appreciate the dangers that Ellen faced‚ how she reacted to them and what this tells us about her character. Understanding the text Ellen faces
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