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Format of Note-Making

Note making is a process for recording important details from sources like books, articles, meetings or discussions. It helps the writer understand and clarify thinking while saving time by allowing them to review notes. There is a standard note making format that includes a heading, subheadings, points, sub-subheadings, and a key or keywords section. The note making process involves underlining important sentences, making a rough draft, organizing information logically, ignoring less important details, being brief and clear, using abbreviations, and following the appropriate format.

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Format of Note-Making

Note making is a process for recording important details from sources like books, articles, meetings or discussions. It helps the writer understand and clarify thinking while saving time by allowing them to review notes. There is a standard note making format that includes a heading, subheadings, points, sub-subheadings, and a key or keywords section. The note making process involves underlining important sentences, making a rough draft, organizing information logically, ignoring less important details, being brief and clear, using abbreviations, and following the appropriate format.

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Note Making

Note Making is a way of recording important details from a source. This source
can be any book, article, meeting or any oral discussion. In note making, the
writer records the essence of the information. It helps us to understand and
clarify thinking. Note making saves a lot of time by going through the notes
made. One can get a glimpse of a lot of information from a short note.

Note Making Format

There is a fixed note making format. One needs to follow this note making
format in order to have a clear and unambiguous understanding from it. The
note making format has-

Heading

It shows the title or the heading of note.

Subheading

As the name suggests, a subheading is a subdivision of the main topic. One can
use as many subheadings as he or she wants.

Point

Below subheading, there are some points which are the part of the main topics.

Sub-subheading

One can add more headings below the points for showing the category, types,
advantages, etc.
Key or Keywords

The key portion of the note shows the various codes, symbols or the
abbreviation used. It helps to get a clear understanding of the keys used in the
note making format.

The Procedure of Note Making


STEP 1
· Read the passage provided
· Underline the important sentences. It helps to make headings and
subheadings
· Make a rough note first so as to get an idea
· Organize them in logical order or sequence for the final note
· Never lose the main idea of the passage
· Ignore information which is less important
· Be brief, clear, and specific
· Use abbreviations
· Use the appropriate note making format

STEP 2
· Provide a key to abbreviations.
· place them in a box.

STEP 3
Write the summary of the passage using your own notes. Word limit is 1/3 of
the total words of the passage. No need of giving heading here, just write
SUMMARY as heading

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