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Absorbing the content of academic texts, like book chapters or journal articles, can be challenging. Taking notes while engaging in academic reading can help you navigate through dense material, making your reading more efficient and effective. This Resource Page offers 4 methods for notetaking on academic reading.

Using note-taking strategies during classes can help us focus and keep our brains active, and ultimately organize our notes and ideas more effectively for our studies. This Resource Page will help you take effective notes in class.

Critical thinking is an essential skill for academic success and professional growth, particularly in graduate school where advanced analytical abilities are required. This Resource Page explains what critical thinking is and shows how to apply it to reading, writing, discussion and collaborative work.

This Resource Page shows you strategies for critical academic reading depending on your reading purposes — whether for class discussions, selecting literature for an assignment, or including ideas from selected readings into your paper — to maximize your understanding and insight.

You may ask: “Why are assignments so common at OISE instead of exams? Why do most OISE instructors use assignments to grade students?”. This Resource Page will help you navigate the process of understanding assignment instructions and planning.

Once you have gathered the relevant literature for your assignment and read it in detail, you need to organize key information and notes systematically. This Resource Page will help you find strategies and a system to organize your literature and notes.

This Resource Page shows the different stages of literature review preparation and presents resources to support you at each stage.

Your course instructors might ask you to write a paper and they will often require you to choose your own assignment topic. This Resource Page will show you effective strategies for selecting a topic.