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Learn some form of shorthand, and learn how to summarize on the go. Writing down word-for-word what a professor is saying is not going to work well. For that, b
by cguess 5y ago
Learn some form of shorthand, and learn how to summarize on the go. Writing down word-for-word what a professor is saying is not going to work well. For that, bring a tape recorder (or an iPhone if you want to kill your battery) and retake your notes later when you can pause, rewind, etc.
- zihotki 5y agoAnd then you still will spread your focus. You'll have to summarize in paralel with trying to understand a professor. That doesn't work well and very tiresome. Why not to watch a recording of a lecture in the first place and pause when you need to think?
- Multicomp 5y agoI was and am always too lazy to go back after the recording. But I found that for me, my half-learned dialect of Teeline shorthand is enough for me to keep up with speakers...when they are not speaking especially fast. I'd speed up more if I got used to cutting out vowels and doing phonetic spellings and brief forms like the Teeline Fast book says to do, but like the sibling comment says, that can slow me down even more as I try to figure out what is being said -> how to make it phonetic -> oh crap he's moved on, lets jump back to the newest offset. I'd do Gregg shorthand but with my handwriting being so poor as is and the apparent risk that the writing can be ambiguous later, I went with a phonetic shorthand. Works for my 'threat model', write it down now, review now or in 10 years and you can translate it back.