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Note-taking
For most students, note-taking enhances and reinforces learning. Therefore
the process is taught and required in three CAD courses. Students will
be supported if note-taking is continuously demanded throughout their
program at Al Akhawayn University.
Beginning with SSK 1201, CAD students are introduced to the craft of
taking notes from readings. This course teaches students to use the
Cornell
Note System. In addition to in-class instruction, online note taking
help is available. See Purdue University's Online
Writing Lab page on Notes.
Students learn to use notes in support of the reading texts they are
responsible for. Further application of the notes is reinforced by several
of the CAD exams that allow students to use their notes, much like an
open-book exam. The process requires teachers to collect the notes when
the particular reading text is discussed in class. Teachers then bring
a portfolio of each student's notes to the exam and distribute them
with the exam. Studnets are thus encouraged to take useful notes.
Notes taken by students on arrival at AUI are largely verbatim chunks
of the original text, often inappropriately selected. CAD courses present
the alternative of using the note-taking exercise to process and analyse
the ideas of a reading text, and therefore to develop critical reading
skills via note-taking. This habit is reinforced by the kinds of questions
on CAD exams: analytical and evaluative items with reference beyond
what the text says, to how its meaning can be applied, combined or further
developed.
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