The maintenance of your notebooks and presentation of your notes plays as important a role as their contents in impressing instructors. Teachers often have to check notebooks hundreds of notebooks every day, and so standing out through presentation becomes extremely important. Here are five tips that are sure to help you master the much-desired art of impeccable maintenance and presentation:
1. Cover your notebooks with brown paper and plastic sheets
Notebooks are an invaluable record of successful strategies and reflective summaries. Hence, it becomes important to preserve them. Cover them to maintain them in a premium state. If you can laminate your notebooks then nothing like it. Laminating over the brown paper helps in making the notebooks waterproof.
2. Always keep your notes complete
If you miss a class, ensure that you take notes from a batch mate at the earliest. Maintaining continuity of your notes is essential. Incomplete notes will bother you when you study for the exams and will also irritate your instructor.
3. Use a good pen
A ballpoint pen or a thin, smooth nib fountain or a pilot pen is preferable. A good pen ensures that your writing is uniform, continuous and flawless. Be careful not to let the ink blot in case of fountain pens.
4. Avoid scribbling and over writing
Scribbling, cutting and then writing and over writing – all these make notebooks look untidy and unimpressive. The first rule for impressive and well-maintained notebooks is to be extremely careful while writing so that you don’t have to scribble, cut and overwrite. If you have by chance written something wrong and you have to scratch it out, just strike the unwanted words with a single stroke and move on.
5. Underline and highlight essential matter
No teacher/instructor these days has the time to read through your entire mass of notes. If you underline the important points and highlight the summary, they are bound to take notice and get impressed. Also, this format is helpful during exams as it accelerates revision. Ensure that these underlined points are apt and correct and that the highlighted matter is well written.
A well-maintained notebook is a key to success so you should treat its maintenance as your priority. This will be your first step to academic success. All the best!
A well-maintained notebook is a key to success so you should treat its maintenance as your priority. This will be your first step to academic success. All the best!
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