Note-taking exercise

Notes taken from lectures or from a book should emphasize the main ideas (using titles or headings) and then fill in the details.

Outline

Main idea
1. definitions
2. details
3. questions that you have

Example:

The mind-body problem
-dualism means that two substances are important for human nature
-mind (invisible ideas) and brain (physical body)
Human Genome Project – it’s just the brain
“personality traits are determined by genetics” (Cockerton and Chaparian 5)
“How is it possible for a purely mental, non-physical mind to interact with an entirely material, physical body?” (Cockerton and Chaparian 5)