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Notemaking

This guide will help you understand the importance of notemaking, and provide you with purposes and techniques you can apply to your own notemaking.

Top tips for notemaking when...

At university and in the workplace, we have to take notes for different reasons. For example, at university, we take notes to remember lecture content, write down key points from sources we are reading, or to revise information. Scroll through the slides below for tips on notemaking in each of these situations.

What's next?

Now that we've considered some different notemaking techniques and purposes, let's think about whether you prefer making digital or handwritten notes. Check out some guidance on the next page.

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