On Feb 4, 2009, at 1:52 AM, Francis Norton wrote:
I am trying to improve my life-long poor note-taking skills and
would be be very interested in your recommendations. I've currently
trying to adopt Cornell Notes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Notes
) which is definitely an improvement on what I've been doing so far.
The Cornell system is for studying.
Taking notes during interviewing is a different set of skills, because
(as Katie aptly pointed out) you need to stay present in the moment
and be working on the dialogue with the participant *while* you're
making the notes.
The best resources are going to either be from journalism or
ethnography. Studying note taking techniques won't work as well, nor
will note taking techniques used for interrogation (practiced by
police). They are different animals.
Jared
Jared M. Spool
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