Table of Contents

• STARTING OUT: PRE-COURSEWORK EVALUATION
• A. Evaluating Listening Comprehension and Note-Taking Skills
• LECTURE 1: Study Tips (Psychology)
• B. Teacher’s Note-Taking Feedback Form
• Unit 2 UNDERSTANDING LECTURE DESIGN
• A. Comparing the Language of Lecturing to the Language of Writing
• B. Recognizing Cues
• C. Recognizing Paraphrase, Repetition, Exemplifi cation, and Digression
• D. Summarizing Key Differences between the Language of Lecturing and the Language of Writing
• E. Getting the Main Ideas Using Context and Prediction
• F. Predicting Content and Lecture Direction
• Unit 3 RECOGNIZING INTRODUCTIONS, CONCLUSIONS, AND DIGRESSIONS
• A. Using Introductions to Recognize Lecture Focus and Direction
• B. Recognizing and Comprehending Conclusions
• C. Recognizing Digressions
• Unit 4 THE BASICS OF NOTE-TAKING
• A. Noting Key Words
• B. Using Abbreviations Thoughtfully
• C. Using Note-Taking Symbols and Abbreviations
• D. Visually Representing Relationships and the Relative Importance of Information
• LECTURE 2: "Nu Shu": Women’s Unique Language (Linguistics)
• E. Eight DOs and DON’Ts for Improving Lecture Comprehension and Note-Taking
• Unit 5 NOTING NUMBERS AND STATISTICS
• A. Differentiating between Numbers That Sound Similar
• B. Noting Years
• C. Noting Large Numbers in Isolation
• D. Noting Fractions and Decimals
• E. Noting Ratios
• LECTURE 3: Exploring a Market: Attitudes toward Pets (Business/Sociology)
• LECTURE 4: Tobacco through the Millennia (Agriculture/History)
• Unit 6 FOCUS ON LECTURE ORGANIZATION (PART 1)
• A. Why Listen for Organization?
• B. Organizational Plans within Lectures
• C. Defi ning a Term
• D. Listing Subtopics
• E. Describing a Causal Relationship
• LECTURE 5: How to Deal with Stress (Psychology)
• LECTURE 6: Acid Rain (Ecology/Chemistry)
• Unit 7 FOCUS ON LECTURE ORGANIZATION (PART 2)
• A. Exemplifying a Topic
• B. Describing a Process or Sequence of Events
• C. Classifying Subtopics
• LECTURE 7: Archaeological Dating Methods (Anthropology)
• LECTURE 8: Pheromones (Biology)
• Unit 8 FOCUS ON LECTURE ORGANIZATION (PART 3)
• A. Describing Characteristics
• B. Comparing and Contrasting
• C. Making a Generalization and Providing Evidence
• LECTURE 9: The Near Side of the Moon (Astronomy)
• LECTURE 10: Drink Your Green Tea! (Food Science)
• Unit 9 TYING IT TOGETHER: END-OF-COURSE EVALUATION
• LECTURE 11: Voter Turnout in the United States (Political Science)
• LECTURE 12: The Pyramids of Egypt: An Engineering Feat (Engineering/History)
• APPENDIX A Academic Word List Vocabulary
• APPENDIX B Lecture Index by Organizational Plan
• APPENDIX C Lecture Index by Subject Matter
• APPENDIX D Rewritten Notes for Lectures 5–10