CASC 142 Methods of Inquiry

https://libguides.lib.rochester.edu/CASC142

Learning Outcomes

• Assess your current listening and notetaking skills and plan strategies for improvement
• Demonstrate active listening strategies
• Practice two approaches for systematic notetaking

Exercise 1: How do you currently take notes?

• What method(s) have you used up until this point?
• How successful are these methods for you and why?
• Are there barriers you face with this method?
• Are your method(s) effective when listening to a lecture? How about when researching reading sources while doing research?

Exercise 2: Listen to this Tex Talk and use your current method of note taking (4.07 to end).

Strategies when taking notes:

Summarize

 Listen or read, then put it aside and write a few sentences about what you remember.

Interrogate

Read the article and, any time an idea or question pops into your head, write it down near the quote that sparked the idea. See example below:

BEAM Method

Read the article and, as you read, classify each phrase or paragraph according to BEAM.
B for background information
E for examples or exhibits
A for arguments found in your reading
M for methodologies used in discovering information

Eg. Is it background information? Write B besides the phrase. See example below:

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Visual Notetaking/Sketch noting

Sketchnoting. (18 Feb. 2019). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Amytangg on Wikimedia Commons.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sketchnoting_Definition.jpg

Exercise 4: Test Drive a new (to you) method
Take one of these methods you don't usually use for a test run using the practice article provided.