Below are some easy to print handouts from the book, which you can use to help improve your study. 10 top tips on academic learning

Concept map template

Cornell notes template

Matrix notes template

Pattern note template

These journal articles have been chosen to give you a deeper understanding of the topics covered in this chapter and to help you read more widely. Click on the link below to access the journal article.

Comparison of Self-Questioning, Summarizing, and Notetaking-Review as Strategies for Learning From Lectures, Alison King, American Educational Research Journal, June 20, 1992; vol. 29, 2: pp. 303–323

Improving Reading Comprehension and Notetaking Skills, Reva A. Curry, Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, March 1991; vol. 7, 2: pp. 91–96

The Medium Makes the Message: Effects of Cues on Students' Lecture Notes, Mark Huxham, Active Learning in Higher Education, November 2010; vol. 11, 3: pp. 179–188

Complexity, Cues and Relationships: Student Perceptions of Feedback, Helen Pokorny and Pamela Pickford, Active Learning in Higher Education, March 2010; vol. 11, 1: pp. 21–30

Our NoteMaker – the what, why and how of making notes http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/notemaker/index.html

Strategies and tips

Quick guide to keeping references http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/rlos/studyskills/harvard/index.html

Mini-notemaking lecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1IHsPt_Nmg

Mini Buzan lecture on Mindmapping http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlabrWv25qQ&feature=related

Buzan’s site – with 7-step guide http://www.buzanworld.com/Mind_Maps.htm

If you like making notes on video – try video ant http://ant.umn.edu/

Cornell notes – more structured and organised: http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html

'Note book' site: on-line space for jottings, websites etc. http://www.evernote.com/

Concept map tools website http://cmap.ihmc.us/

Prezi: a tool for making creative notes (and preparing presentations) http://prezi.com/

NB: Check out Playing to Learn http://prezi.com/rj_b-gw3u8xl/playing-to-learn/

Visual Literacy site: Check out different visual ways to represent information http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html

Text to Movie resource http://www.xtranormal.com/

Capture key points in your own mini-animation notes.

Visual notemaking using your iPad http://ninmah.be/2010/08/02/ipad-visual-movie/

What to do in lectures http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiv9GG_SzlI

Draw-to-learn http://www.brighton.ac.uk/visuallearning/drawing/

Avoiding plagiarism: Short tutorial http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/Plagiarism/

Don’t forget to organise your DESK http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/learnhigher/desk/desk.html

And that much notemaking is for our writing – check out our writing space http://learning.londonmet.ac.uk/TLTC/connorj/WritingGroups/

Sandra Sinfield on how to make the best hotes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1IHsPt_Nmg