You don't have to be super-fancy in your notetaking to be ef

You don't have to be super-fancy in your notetaking to be effective,but there are a few techniques that seem to work best for most people.
Whether you use Roman numerals or bullet points,outlining is an effective way to capture the hierarchical relationships (1)_______________ideas and data.In a history class,you might write the name of an important leader,and under it the key events that he or she was involved in,and (2)______________each of them,a short description.Outlining is a great way to take notes from books,because the author has usually organized the material in a fairly effective way,and you can go (3) ______________start to end of a chapter and simply reproduce that structure in your notes.
For lectures,however,outlining has limitations.The relationship between ideas isn't always hierarchical,and the instructor might jump around a lot.A point later in the lecture might relate better to information earlier in the lecture,leaving you to either a flip back and (4) ______________to find where the information goes best and hope there's still room to write it (5) ______________or risk losing the relationship between what the professor just said and what he or she said before.
For lectures,a mind map might be a more appropriate way of keeping track (6)_________the relationships between ideas.Here's the idea:(7)the centre of a blank sheet of paper,you write the lecture's main topic.As new sub-topics are introduced (the kind of thing you'd create a new heading for in an outline),you draw a branch outward from the center and write the sub-topic along the branch.Then each point under that heading gets its own,smaller branch (8)the main one.When another new sub-topic is mentioned,you draw a new main branch from the centre.The thing is,if a point should go under the first heading but you're on the fourth heading,you can easily just draw it in (9)__________the first branch.Likewise,if a point connects to two different ideas,you can connect it (10)__________two different branches.