Listening & Note-taking skills for everyone.pdf

listening and note taking

1. Creat r fovo
ynatlaikr fo
pkrhhe Listening &
Note-taking
Skills
Compiled by Miranti Kartika Dewi

2. Listening
Skills
Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you.
Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
-Anonymous-
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3. Best Advice:
Listen More
Than You Ta
lk
Richard Branson
(Founder, Virgin Group)
How do you run a meeting?
“Listen more. Talk less. And be de
cisive when the times comes.”
Satya Nadella
(CEO, Microsoft)

4. What resembles a good listener?
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What
constitute
good listening
skills?
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Good listening is much more than being
silent while the other person talks.
Good listening included interactions
that build a person’s self-esteem.
Good listening was seen as a
cooperative conversation.
 
Good listeners tended to make
suggestions.
Source: https://hbr.org/2016/07/what-great-listeners-actually-do

7. “6 levels of
listening
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Source: https://hbr.org/2016/07/what-great-listeners-actually-do
Create a safe
environment for
everyone
Clear away
distractions like
phones and laptops,
focusing attention on
the other person and
making appropriate
eye-contact
Capture ideas, ask
questions, and restate
issues to confirm that
your understanding
is correct
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3

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Source: https://hbr.org/2016/07/what-great-listeners-actually-do
Observe non-
verbal cues. You
listen with your
eyes as well as
your ears
Understand the
other person’s
emotions and
feelings about the
topic at hand, and
identifies and
acknowledges them
Ask question that
clarify assumptions
the other person
holds and helps the
other person to see
the issue in a new
light
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6

10. “
Effective vs
Ineffective
Listening
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Source: William H. Bergquist and Steven R. Phillips, A Handbook for Faculty Development, Volume 2. Washington, D.C.: Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges, 1977,
p. 207. Accessed from: https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/teaching/student-teacher-communication/characteristics-effective-listening

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Source: William H. Bergquist and Steven R. Phillips, A Handbook for Faculty Development, Volume 2. Washington, D.C.: Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges, 1977,
p. 207. Accessed from: https://teachingcommons.stanford.edu/resources/teaching/student-teacher-communication/characteristics-effective-listening

13. Note-taking
Skills
Knowledge is like a prey and writing is the knot
Tie your prey with a strong rope
Among the ignorance is that you hunt a deer, then leave it off
as such.
(Diwan Ash-Shafi'i)
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Best advice in note-taking:
do not to take too many notes, but take notes wisely - as
precisely as possible in your own words

15. 15 Source: https://student.unsw.edu.au/note-taking-skills

16. Types of Note-taking
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Detailed
notes
•To review a
well-respected
book/resource
on a subject by
reading more
thoroughly
than normal and
taking down the
details
Summative
notes
•To create a
‘snapshot’ after
attending a
lecture, or read
a book or
journal article.
•Just like an
author creating
abstract for
his/her article.
Critical
notes
•To analyze the
work of others
and the sources
they have used
and
synthesizing
these into your
own view.
Source: https://www.transkills.admin.cam.ac.uk/resources/history/transitions-study-history-part-i/note-taking

17. Methods for Note-taking (1) – the Outline Method
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Pros
•Highlights the key points of
the lecture in a logical way
•Ease of use allows the
students to focus
•Reduces the reviewing and
editing time
•Gives a proper and clean
structure to your notes
Cons
•Not suitable for subjects
like chemistry and math
that comprise of formulas
and charts
•Doesn’t work well if the
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Source: https://medium.goodnotes.com/the-best-note-taking-methods-for-college-students-
451f412e264e

18. Methods for Note-taking (2) – the Cornell Method
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Pros
•A quicker way to take, review, and
organize your notes
•Summarizes all the information in
a systematic manner
•Helps in an effective learning as it
enables to absorb information in a
shorter time
•Helps you to extract main ideas
•Cuts down time for reviewing
Cons
•Pages need to be prepared before
a lecture
•Requires some time for reviewing
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Source: https://medium.goodnotes.com/the-best-note-taking-methods-for-college-students-451f412e264e

19. Methods for Note-taking (3) – the Boxing Method
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Pros
•Segregates and organizes your
notes in form of boxes
•Let’s you focus on one box at a
time while reading
•Help you memorize the
relation between notes in a
visual way
•Perfect for people that take
notes on an iPad
Cons
•Not suitable for every lecture
type
•Doesn’t work well if no overall
topics can be assigned to a
group of notes
•Requires additional time to
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Source: https://medium.goodnotes.com/the-best-note-taking-methods-for-college-students-451f412e264e

20. Methods for Note-taking (4) – the Charting Method
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Pros
•information is clearly
structured
•fantastic for reviewing
•notes are easily comparable
•a lot of information can be
memorized rather quickly
Cons
•Very time-consuming method
•Barely makes sense to apply
this method in a lecture/class
where the content isn’t clear
beforehand
•doesn’t work for information
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21. Methods for Note-taking (5) – the Mapping Method
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Pros
•Visually appealing
•Can be used for noting
down detailed
information but in a
concise form
•Allows easy editing of the
notes
Cons
•While mapping your
notes, you might run out
of space on a single page
•Can be confusing if the
information is wrongly
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Source: https://medium.goodnotes.com/the-best-note-taking-methods-for-college-students-451f412e264e

22. Low- vs High-tech Note-taking?
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A series of randomized trials have shown that
 
when college
students use computers or tablets during lectures,
they learn less and earn worse grades.
 
Understanding of the lecture, measured by a
standardized test, was substantially worse for
those who had used laptops.
Students who could see the screen of a multitasker’s
laptop (but were not multitasking themselves) scored 17
percent lower on comprehension than those who had no
distracting view.
Source:
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/1
7/08/note-taking-low-tech-often-best

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Further reading:
https://bsc.harvard.edu/note-making
https://collegepuzzle.stanford.edu/college-students-guide-to-take-notes-
effectively/
http://www.learning.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwadminoxacuk/localsites
/oxfordlearninginstitute/documents/pdg/managingyourself/7_note-takin
g.pdf

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Let’s practice
our listening and
note taking skills

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William Ury, trained as a social anthropologist, with a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard, is the co-
founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, is one of the world’s leading experts on negotiation and
mediation. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project. […] Time
magazine described the organization as a “Google for global politics.” More about him:
https://www.williamury.com/about/

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Note Taking
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taking assignment (from guest lecture session)

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