How To Do Your Math Homework: Useful Guidelines

Students can benefit a great deal from learning note taking techniques and from fully concentrating during their lecture. While it is recommended that you take notes by hand because this engages tactile learning in the brain, this may not be feasible for modern students. Many lectures are half virtual, with many powerpoint presentations and of course lecturers talk faster and faster it seems. Many times, the information that is up on slides, written on the board, or somehow virtually presented differs from the expounding lecture provided by the teacher. This is where having a computer for note taking becomes so handy.

But how can you make the most of your time and ensure your homework and essay writing it = done well? By utilizing short cuts.

Short cuts are built in to your systems so that you can easy do things such as copy, paste, bold, italicize, save, highlight, and otherwise manipulate the text. You should get to know these short cuts. You should also get to know the shortcuts for inserting tables into your notes, inserting columns, etc… These short cuts will save you a great deal of time when you need to copy what is being discussed. The different methods for locating shortcuts is really contingent upon your computer, but you can always familiarize yourself with the help section of your text program to get more information on it.

There are also certain phrases or keywords that may come up a lot in your notes, which you can set up as a short cut in your system too.

You may also benefit from using a note taking program specifically designed for research purposes such as EverNote or OneNote. You can use these to collect pdf’s, notes, links, and images on a single page. These programs are perfect for lectures because you can take certain notes and keywords to other notes, or other themes within your notes so that similar notes are kept together in an organized fashion.

Writing notes by hand is important because the act of physically writing will create better cognitive interaction with your brain. The more this is done, the better ingrained that information becomes in your brain. So even if you are unable to take notes in class by hand, you can always go back and rewrite your notes from the computer by hand. Doing this several times during the course of your study will greatly benefit you.

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