One of the most important skills you can learn is how to take good notes. Not only how to take them, but to get into the practice of taking them. You may be thinking "I know how to take notes, what do I need this advice for?". My response to this is that it is not just in this course you will find it useful, but in the whole of your life. We are repeatedly told we live in an information age. We are bombarded by information in a variety of media. In order to make sense of this information you have to be able to recall it and sort it into a useful order. A piece of information does not exist in isolation, but is connected to many other pieces of information. The connections you make can often make the difference between information being useful or not. Research in psychology has shown that people remember information more, and make more sense of it, when they actively do something with it, as opposed to just passively receiving it. The very act of using the information in some way makes it more 'meaningful' to each of us - we make connections and we remember them. One of the best and easiest activities for doing this is to make notes.
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This has been copied and pasted from the T171 web site.