Find techniques that work for you
Make notes
- Try a variety of note-making styles.
- Use your own words
- Use subheadings, points, colour, graphics, highlighting, abbreviations and symbols
- Connect ideas and identify themes
- Think of different ways of saying what you have written.
- Turn headings/key ideas into questions.
- Convert notes to flowcharts and diagrams and diagrams to text.
To do
- Try out different note-making styles (Charles Darwin University, ALLSP)
- Create a mind map (Canva.com)
- Mindmapping and brainstorming (Learning Lab, RMIT University)