Acquiring Effective Notetaking Skills: An Alternative to Professional Notetaking.

notes for a particular course, taken by seniors or graduate students employed by the notetaking services. To my knowledge, the effficacy of hiring a professional to record notes has not been studied formally. While this relatively new area awaits investigation, related research from the area of notetaking suggests that acquiring professionally derived notes can be beneficial (when they are used appropriately), but that acquiring effective notetaking skills is still important for achieving academic success. The following is both a summary of the notetaking research germane to the relative advantages of professional and personal notetaking and implications for students in respect to notetaking. Reading professionals could well share this information with students in any course that involves teaching notetaking.