Effective note-taking is an important practice to master at in the Inquiry programme. You will be exposed to a lot of new knowledge and you need to develop a reliable method for recording and retrieving it when writing your report. But note-taking is also a learning process in itself, helping you to process and understand the information you receive. Your notes should always include the reference to the source you are getting your information from.

Principles of Great notes (developed by 9COR on 9/6/15)

1. structured by research question

2. from a variety of sources (web sites {news sites, wikipedia, government, advocacy}, experts, video, TV, data, survey)

3. organised (in a table, with headings)

4. own thinking identified (e.g. in green)

Link to advice on notetaking with Mindmaps

Link to activities and advice on summarising sources (Get the Gist)

Link to a video on sketchnoting (notes don’t just have to be words….)

Link to Videonotes with allows you to easily make notes while watching a web video

Link to examples of some amazing handwritten notes