Thesis: Note-taking is a basic skill, useful throughout life;

Argumentation 1: Giving students teacher-prepared notes or power point slides doesn’t improve their performance;

Explanation 1: Students need to take notes in ways that are meaningful to them, turning the listening activity in an active process in which you must cope with information;

Example: there are evidences that highlight the need of students to study from their own materials;

Argumentation 2: Note-taking is the cognitive exercise involved in recollecting, summarizing, reorganizing and restructuring the notes;

Explanation 2: It helps when notes are restructured: organize them in a way that reflects the connection between ideas rather than simply the chronology of presentation;

Conclusion: Note-taking is an important process to breed since you have been at school.