Note Taking

Mrs. BarnettEnglish 3

Cornell Notes

• Cornell Notes is a method of note taking developed by Walter Pauk. The system helps students take notes and prepare to study in a more concise and logical fashion.

• Your Cornell notes will not need to be on special paper, but you will want to be sure you have all the parts.

Cornell NotesUsing the image below note the four divisions.

• Section A of the template labels the class, topic and the date.

• Section B is the review or study section, when you review your notes after class (although I often do it while in class) you write review questions that can be answered by the information in section C. This way you can just cover over the right side of the page to study, and the answer is right next to you. There is no flipping through books or multiple fluttering sheets of paper.

• Section C is where a student would normally take notes in their classes. The focus here should be on short bulleted lists of info, not long sentences of what the teacher said.

• Section D is for a brief synopsis of the information covered on the page. You only need to have section D at the end of all the notes for that note-taking session, not just because it is at the end of the page.

Cornell NotesUsing the image below note the four divisions.