After you have identified the main ideas and organization of a textbook passage, you are ready to pull the information together in the form of study notes. From this point on, you will be studying from your notes, not the book. Then examine our models of study notes on the next page. We have shown you two acceptable ways to take study notes on the Stress article we marked earlier.
Good notes are short.
Limit yourself to three or four pages for a typical chapter. Leave out the minor details Notes are for collecting and organizing the main points of the chapter. The job goes quickly if your text-marking is good. Use just one side of the paper. This method allows you to see the over-all plan of a chapter by spreading all the notes in front of you.