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Diploma in Higher Education Studies

From lecture notes to a summary

HES 101 · English for Academic Purposes — Week 13 of 16

CourseHES 101
Week13 of 16
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This week’s topics

From lecture notes to a summary

  1. Turning notes into full sentences
  2. Checking your summary against the source

What you will be able to do

  • 3.1 Take structured notes from a recorded lecture.
  • 3.2 Summarise key points accurately in own words.

Activity

Turn your lecture notes into a 100-word summary and check it with a partner.

Study materials

Further resources

  • Business Communication for Success, ch. 6.4: Paraphrase and summary versus plagiarism · PDF · Saylor (2012), checking a summary against the source; pp. 249–252 · for registered students
  • College Success, ch. 5.3: Taking notes (turning notes into a summary) · PDF · OpenStax (2020), the Cornell summary section; pp. 152–170 · for registered students
  • Japanese and Taiwanese University Students' Summaries: Perceptions of Summary Writing · Open-access article · Ono (2011), Journal of Academic Writing. What students find hard about summarising: choosing main ideas, cutting detail and rewording. · for registered students
  • The effects of note-taking methods on lasting learning · Open-access article · Yıldırım (2026), Frontiers in Psychology. Why reviewing and rewriting notes helps you remember a lecture and summarise it later. · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: How a non-fiction article is organised
  • Week 2: Reading for the main idea: skimming
  • Week 3: Finding information fast: scanning
  • Week 4: The parts of an academic article
  • Week 5: Formal and informal English
  • Week 6: Building a paragraph: the topic sentence
  • Week 7: Supporting your point with evidence and examples
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Linking ideas with connectives
  • Week 10: Listening to a short lecture
  • Week 11: Taking notes that work
  • Week 12: Summarising in your own words
  • Week 13: From lecture notes to a summary
  • Week 14: Checking and improving your writing
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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