It was important she have good notes on the lecture. Normally she used her laptop to take notes, but, without it, she’d have to rely on a more traditional approach. So she put pen to paper—and ...

A great lecture is not a rote mechanical reading of notes, but a kind of dance, in which lecturer and listeners watch, respond to, and draw energy and inspiration from each other. To begin with ...

In lecture I try to sketch out the book’s line ... (Seriously, why does that awful style get dragged out as a response to anybody who notes that lectures can be done well?) ...

They're wrong. Taking notes is not about transcribing what is said during lecture. It's about processing the information in a way that helps you pull out what's important and make new connections.

But does typing notes capture the concepts of a lecture or meeting as well as writing them longhand? One expert, Kenneth Kiewra, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Nebraska ...