Typed Notes

Guide

 

Typed Notes follow a structure of main ideas and supporting ideas, details, and examples.  Typed Notes need not be as efficient as ordinary Reading Notes.  However, paraphrasing and summarizing are important as well as keeping the nesting structure through consistent bullets and indents. 

 

Rationale:  Upon initial exposure to information by reading, taking notes forces the active neural processing and later provides an efficient source for review activities.  Many other activities depend upon good Notes.    

 

Instructions:  Establish Basic Bulleting and Nesting practices, a Key of Symbols, and abbreviations for Shorthand.  Below is a basic key to work from that indicates levels of importance and a few other meanings. 

 

BASIC BULLETING and NESTING

Basic Bulleting establishes levels of importance while maintaining clarity.  Nesting information, meaning using indentations at consistent points according to the level of importance, will also establish clarity.

 

Example:

 

TITLE

·         Subheading, New Section

o        Generalization Main Idea

§         Detail

 

BASIC SYMBOL USE

Develop a Key of Symbols, kept as the first page, to develop consistent symbol use and later decipher notes; the symbols will evolve over time.

Example:

¿         links an idea that would not fit into the space available

c:    concept

n:    name to identify

v:    vocabulary words to look up

Ev:  event

Ex:  example

*     further inquiry needed

 

BASIC SHORTHAND USE

Shorthand is the use of consistent abbreviations to speed up the note taking process.  This is generally achieved by eliminating vowels except at the beginning of words.

 

Example:

b/w = between

c/f = called for

u/e = unemployment

ppl. = people

all. = alliance

ptcpt = participate

rsstnce = resistance

org. = organization

cnsrv = conserve

 

ADVANCED SHORTHAND USE

Advanced Shorthand will involve categorizing abbreviations according to major categories of information you approach

 

Example:

|A| = Americans

|AA| = African Americans

|W| = Women

|L| = Labor

 

 

pP = President

pC = Congress

pSC = Supreme Court

pS = Senate

 

gS = South

gN = North

gW = West

gNE = New England

gGP = Great Plains

gRM = Rocky Mountains

eD = Demand

eS = Supply

eP = Production

e$ = Price

eBM = Bull Market

eI = Investment

 

Ø      General guidelines

·         Stay efficient

o        Paraphrase as much as possible; only copy important subheadings or titles.

o        Eliminate basic prior knowledge

o        Eliminate useless words

o        Use your Key of Symbols to develop shorthand

 

·         Stay organized

o        Nest information

§         Use indents effectively

§         Use white space effectively

o        Be consistent with bulleting and symbol use

o        Identify the importance and type of information with appropriate symbols

 

·         Be robust and complete

o        Use sufficient examples and details

o        Identify any quotes that may be useful for essays

 

Typed Notes Rubric

#

possible points

 

expectations

points earned

1.

6

Clarity

Title, Reference, Name, Date, and broader topic; page numbers

 

2.

Corresponds to a Key of Symbols

 

4.

Uses spacing effectively

 

5.

6

Organization

Employs bulleting

 

6.

Employs nesting (indents)

 

7.

3

Efficiency

Concise word choices

 

8.

Utilizes abbreviations

 

9.

Utilizes Symbols

 

10.

N/A

Thoroughness

Thoroughly covers topics within reading

 

11.

Completes reading

 

 

15

 

total

 

 

Typed Notes Example

Ch 11: America and the World

 

Section 1: Expansion in the Pacific

  • vImperialismv-quest for colonial empires
    • led the 3 nations to brink of war
      • Great Britain
      • Germany
      • U.S.
    • Need for markets and raw materials
    • Desire for power and prestige
      • Turn to Africa, Asia, and Latin America
    • Imperialists:
      • NSenator Henry Cabot LodgeN-from Mass., believed US needed to join this competition to maintain its economic and military strength
      • NAlfred Thayer MahanN- U.S. Naval War College wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History
        • US needs strong Navy
        • Need for oversea bases
  • Case of Hawaii
    • Captain James Cook renames Hawaiian Islands to Sandwich Islands
    • Chief Kamehameha united 8 islands
    • 2,000 miles west Cali.
    • Hawaiians need industrial society and Christianity
    • Main Hawaiian crop=sugar

 

1)      Ships with settlers, missionaries and traders 1800s

                                                               i.      Diseases

1.       Pop. 300,000à1778, 150,000à1819

                                                             ii.      Need for laborers

2)      Brought Japanese and Chinese workers

3)      1875 treatyàHawaiian sugar exempted from US tariffs

                                                               i.      no territory or privileges to other countries

                                                             ii.      1886 US gets Pearl Harbor for tax-free status for sugar

4)      Kalakaua refuses to turn over Pearl Harbor

5)      Secret ‘Hawaiian League’ formed

a.       Overthrow monarchy and get US to annex Hawaii

b.       1887 gunpoint to Kalakaua to sign new constitution limiting his role

6)      ‘Bayonet Constitution’

7)      1890à McKinely tariff ended Hawaii’s position in sugar trade

1.       all countries ship sugar duty-free to US

2.       gives sugar producers vsubsidyv-a government bonus payment

3.       sugar prices drop

4.       Hawaiian economy suffers