BU Library: Write and Cite: Study and Note-Taking Resources

Tutoring Services

The tutoring center organizes and offers FREE tutoring sessions in which faculty-approved, student tutors provide help to students in most course areas of the curriculum. Small group tutoring workshops are organized when helpful. Please contact either tutoring@bastyr.edu for WA or tutoringBUC@bastyr.edu for CA.

In addition, the tutoring center has handouts for how to take notes, study and remember.

Note-Taking & Study Resources

Cal Poly Academic Skills Center
A comprehensive resource. Scroll down for handouts on lecture note-taking, time management, memorization, listening and more.
Columbia College: Effective Note-taking in Lectures
An article about the purpose of taking notes and how to improve them. See the four different methods.
Madison College Libraries: Study Skills: Taking Notes and Getting Organized
Skills for organizing in addition to note taking.
National University: Study Skills
Study skills, time management, note taking, and test taking. Includes templates for taking notes.
Study Skills: University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Specific to medical students but useful tips regardless of discipline.

What Is Mendeley?

If you need a system for organizing your research, consider Mendeley a free reference manager and PDF organizer; it's also a research networking site that puts you in touch with an international community. See the Mendeley Toolkit for complete steps in setting it up.

Use Mendeley to:

save and organize research articles and docs (about 3,000 PDFs in the free version);

annotate (add your own notes and highlights to) sections of interest in saved articles;

generate reference lists and citations for reports and papers.

Although you can register for a Mendeley account without downloading the program to your laptop or desktop computer, we highly recommend you do so! This allows you install the Word plug-in and Web Importer which are the real powers behind Mendeley.

After downloading, you can sync your accumulating full text article library with Mendeley's mobile apps for anywhere access (iPad, iPhone, Android).

Also available in fee-based versions (with more storage).

Mendeley FAQ Sheet