Preface
Acknowledgements
UNIT 1 Pre-Coursework Evaluation
Evaluating Listening Comprehension and Note-Taking Skills
Lecture 1: The Process of Lecture Comprehension
Note-Taking Feedback Form
UNIT 2 Looking at Lecture Transcripts
Comparing the Language of Lecturing to the Language of Writing
Recognizing Cues
Recognizing Paraphrase, Repetition, Exemplification, and Tangential
Information
Summarizing Key Differences between the Language of Lecturing and the Language of Writing
Getting the Main Ideas Using Context and Prediction
Predicting Content and Lecture Direction
UNIT 3 Note-taking Basics
Noting Key Words
Using Note-Taking Symbols and Abbreviations
Visually Representing Relationships and the Relative Importance of Information
Lecture 2: Women and Work
Eight Dos and Don’ts for Improving Lecture Comprehension and Note-Taking
UNIT 4 Noting Numbers and Statistics
Differentiating between Numbers That Sound Similar
Noting Years
Noting Large Numbers in Isolation
Noting Fraction and Decimals
Listening to and Taking Notes on Lectures Containing Numbers and Statistics
Lecture 3: American Attitudes toward Work
Lecture 4: Milestones in Technology
Lecture 5: Immigration to the United States
UNIT 5 Listening for Organization in Lectures
Why Listen for Organization?
Using Introductions to Recognize Lecture Focus and Direction
Recognizing and Comprehending Conclusions
Organizational Plans within Lectures
Defining a Term
Listing Subtopics
Describing a Causal Relationship
Exemplifying a Topic
Describing a Process or Sequence of Events
Classifying Subtopics
Describing Characteristics
Comparing and Contrasting
Making a Generalization and Providing Evidence
Tangents
UNIT 6 Lecture Comprehension and Note-Taking Practice
Lecture 6: How to Deal with Stress
Lecture 7: Acid Rain
Lecture 8: Archaeological Dating Methods
Lecture 9: Amnesty International
Lecture 10: Pheromones
Lecture 11: The Near Side of the Moon
Lecture 12: Drink Your Green Tea!
Lecture 13: Voter Turnout in the United States
Lecture 14: How to Look at Art
Lecture 15: Paging Robodoc: Robots in Medicine
Lecture 16: Earthquakes: Can They Be Predicted?
Lecture 17: Hall’s Classification of Cultures
UNIT 7 Post-Coursework Evaluation
Lecture 18: The Pyramids of Egypt: An Engineering Feat
Lecture 19: Perfectionism
APPENDIX A Lecture Index by Organizational Plan
APPENDIX B Lecture Index by Subject Matter
APPENDIX C Rewritten Notes for Lectures