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The document provides guidelines on how to effectively make notes from a passage, emphasizing the importance of headings, subheadings, and the use of abbreviations. It also includes a passage discussing the profound impact of the internet on communication, business models, and access to information, highlighting its open and flexible nature. Additionally, it addresses concerns about security and the need for ongoing innovation while maintaining the internet as a tool for the people.

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The document provides guidelines on how to effectively make notes from a passage, emphasizing the importance of headings, subheadings, and the use of abbreviations. It also includes a passage discussing the profound impact of the internet on communication, business models, and access to information, highlighting its open and flexible nature. Additionally, it addresses concerns about security and the need for ongoing innovation while maintaining the internet as a tool for the people.

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THE PSBB MILLENNIUM SCHOOL, COIMBATORE

Class 11 ENGLISH CORE - NOTE MAKING - WORKSHEET- 4 – (24-25)

I. How to make notes:


1. Read the passage carefully.
2. Give a heading to your work. The heading will be based on the following
considerations.
(i) What is the main idea of the passage?
(ii) Frame a heading based on the main idea.
(iii) Write it in the middle of the page.
3. Give subheadings
(i) How has the main idea been presented and developed?
(ii) Are there two or three subordinate/associated ideas?
(iii) Frame subheadings based on these.
4. Points are to be noted under each sub heading. Are there further details or points of
the subtitles that you wish to keep in these notes? These are called points. Points may
have subpoints.
5. All subheadings should be at a uniform distance from the margin.
6. Indenting – Points should also be at the same distance away from the margin.
7. Do not write complete sentences.
8. Abbreviations should be used.
1. Use standard abbreviations and symbols as far as possible.
(i) Capitalise the first letters of the names of states, countries or organisations.
For example: UP, USA, UK and UNO.
(ii) Common abbreviations
Sc. (for science), Mr, Mrs, Dr, govt, BSc, etc.
(iii) Common symbols such as i.e., e.g., Rx, /, ∴, +ve, -ve, → (leading to) ↑ (rising), ↓
(falling), =, >,
(iv) Measurements and figures – 100″, 100′, 100 kg, 100 mm, 100 mL.
2. Make your own abbreviations.
(i) Keep the main sounds of the words: edn (education), progm. (programme).
(ii) It is a good practice to keep the first few and the last letters of the word such as
education – edu’n, developing – dev’ing. Retain the suffix so that later when you are
going over the notes, you may recall the full form of the word, for example: ed’nal
(educational), prog’ve (progressive).
3. Take the following caution:
(i) Do not get overenthusiastic about abbreviations.
(ii) You should not abbreviate every word.
(iii) One abbreviation in one point is enough.
(iv) As a general rule, the heading should not be abbreviated.
(v) You may use abbreviations in subheadings.

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III. Your notes should look like this:
(i) Indenting is essential.
Notice that indenting, i.e. shifting from the margin, has been used to clearly indicate
subheadings, points and subpoints. Subheadings, though separated by points, occur
below one another. Similarly, points and subpoints should also come below one another.
Such use of indenting gives your notes a visual character. At a glance, you can see the
main idea and its various aspects.
(ii) Numbering-You may follow any system but you should be consistent, that is, you should
follow the same system throughout.
Writing a summary: The summary is an abstract of the passage. Expand your heading
and subheadings and write down the ideas developed in the passage in the specified
word limit.
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

In a very short period of time the internet has had a profound impact on the way we live.
Since the internet was made operational in 1983, it has lowered both the costs of
communication and the barriers to creative expression. It has challenged old business
models and enabled new ones. It has provided access to information on a scale never
before achievable. It succeeded because we designed it to be flexible and open. These two
features have allowed it to accommodate innovation without massive changes to its
infrastructure. An open, borderless and standardised platform means that barriers to
entry are low, competition is high, interchangeability is assured and innovation is rapid.
The beauty of an open platform is that there are no gatekeepers. For centuries, access to
and creation of information was controlled by the few. The internet has changed that and
is rapidly becoming the platform for everyone, by everyone. Of course, it still has a way
to go. Today there are only about 2.3 billion internet users, representing roughly 30% of
the world’s population. Much of the information that they can access online is in English,
but this is changing rapidly. The technological progress of the internet has also set social
change in motion. As with other enabling inventions before it, from the telegraph to
television, some will worry about the effects of broader access to information – the
printing press and the rise in literacy that it affected were, after all, long seen as
destabilising.
Similar concerns about the internet are occasionally raised, but if we take a long view,
I’m confident that its benefits far outweigh the discomforts of learning to integrate into
our lives. The internet and the world wide web are what they are because literally
millions of people have made it so. It is a grand collaboration. It would be foolish not to
acknowledge that the openness of the internet has had a price. Security is an
increasingly important issue and cannot be ignored. If there is an area of vital research
and development for the internet, this is one of them. I am increasingly confident,
however, that techniques and practice exist to make the internet safer and more secure
while retaining its essentially open quality. After working on the internet and its
predecessors for over decades, I’m more optimistic about its promise than I have ever
been. We are all free to innovate on the net every day. The internet is tool of the people,
built by the people and it must stay that way.

A. On the basis of the reading of the above passage make notes. Use abbreviations
wherever necessary. (minimum 5)
B. Write the summary based on the notes you have prepared.

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