Saturday, January 9, 2016

Writing Faster / Short Hand Notation

Hey, sweeties!

Today, I thought it would be great to introduce the way of writing your notes during the class a little faster. I'm going to talk about 2 methods which I love: Short Hand Notation and Symbols&Diagrams, although keep in mind that it works a little bit more efficiently if you are writing your notes by hand. Also, if you are going to land your notes to somebody else, make sure to introduce them to the symbols and such that you've used by creating a symbol page or something.


Short Hand Notation

So, when you must write your notes during a lecture very fast, creating a shorter system of writing is a great idea. The only disadvantage that I see in doing that, is actually creating and memorising your symbol page; you might totally look something up, though. Advice: You might wanna do that before your classes/year starts, in order to already be very efficient.
Basically, the method it the following: you either condense the entire word or its position to something recognizable to you. Here is an example of what I do:
I take common words or their parts and make a condensed version of it or a symbol. If you are in sciences, you might choose to use actual variables instead of words, and it will save you a lot of time. If you are creative, you might want to create your own symbols (which I didn't) and use it while you write. For instance the ending "tion" is very common and i decided to change it to the drawn above symbol. Here is a way of thinking while doing that:
The words "tion" sounds like the word "shin", so I condensed my drawing into that symbol. Same thing with the ending "able". It reminds me of a bicep (able=strong=bicep) and I drew its condensed version. 
Go ahead and try coming with your own symbols, but if you lack time and creativity (like I do), steal someone's ideas. 

Symbols and Diagrams

I recommend using this method when you sort of already know your professor's way of lecturing or have read the material ahead, so you could orient yourself while making the diagrams. You could use mind-mapping, timelines, tables, Venn or other diagrams, arrows, etc. It will beautifully organize your notes and it would be easier to study from it. 
The best of luck! :)

1 comment:

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