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Tips for Taking Notes in Online Class
Note taking is a strategy to help understand and retain information in a class.
How to take notes:
- Summarize the main ideas
- Keep notes brief
- Choose main headings and sub-headings carefully
Why take notes?
- the act of writing can enforce ideas and information
- note taking can help in learning, remembering, and understanding
- can help on quizzes and in formulating answers to discussion questions
- notebook information is readily available for studying
Example of a notebook summary of Aristotle from LA 303 -
Critical Thinking and Philosophical Concepts |
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| Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) |
| - student of Plato |
| - first systematic thinker of Western Philosophy |
| - first to name the various sciences |
| - especially interested in biology and physics |
| - a moral relativist |
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| Connects concrete forms with the ideas--(Plato placed more emphasis
on the ideas and essences of things): |
| 1. material - the matter that composes something |
| 2. formal - possibilities of a thing |
| 3. efficient - the trigger / starter |
| 4. final - the "why" / purpose |
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| Three parts to the soul |
| 1. nutritive - needs that sustain life |
| 2. sensitive - the instincts |
| 3. rational - thinking (only humans) |
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| Practical Wisdom (phronesis, moral / political concerns ) |
| vs.. |
| Theoretical Understanding (episteme, science) |
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