TOPIC 6 : TAKING LECTURER NOTES

6.1  WHY TAKE LECTURE NOTES?

It will act as your permanent record that will help you to learn and remember it later after class. If you have the chance to jot down lecture notes, it will be very helpful as it may contain info that is not available anywhere else. It also helps you to activate your listening skill.

Here's some question that Madam Adriana gave during the lesson for this topic;

6.2  CORNELL METHOD

Madam gave a lecture about an Overview of The Accounting Cycle and told us to jot down notes using cornell method. Here's my note for the lecture;

6.3  STRATEGIES ON WRITING LECTURE NOTES

• Read the topic before the lecture starts
• Have an overview of the background of the topic so that we have an idea of what the lecture is about
• Sit in the first row in the classroom
• Sit in the line of the lecturer's vision
• Focus physically and mentally
• Listen with open mind
• Review the last notes before class begin
• Write down main points and elated details
• Ask questions

TOPIC 7 : ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & PERFORMANCE

7.1  PLAGIARISM

Based on Wikipedia, plagiarism is an act of 'stealing and publication' on another authors languages, thoughts, ideas or expressions and the representation of them as one's own original work. In easy way to understand, basically plagiarism is like you took someone's works and ideas without their permission and take the credit to yourself. Therefore, DO NOT take someone's work and make it your own, look at other's work as references but do it yourself, be original :)

7.2  CALCULATING GPA AND CGPA

CGPA(Cumulative Grade Point Average): cumulative aggregation of GPA of all semesters you've studied

GPA: Divide the total points by the total credits taken to obtain your semestergrade point average.

Here's a link for an example on how to calculate GPA and CGPA: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/registrar/docs/calculate_gpa.pdf


7.3  PLAN OF STUDY