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1’ and ‘Approach 2’. At the end I drew a flowchart, as obviously the final 
recommendation would be a step-by-step approach. Then I was prepared in advance to 
simply fill in the spaces. 
Dylan: Wow! Now that’s clever. 
Dylan: Your advice about note taking sounds great, but I still have one question, Emily. 
How are you able to design your page in advance? I mean, how can you predict the 
nature of the talk, and know which design is likely to work best? 
Emily: It’s rather obvious when you think about it. What’s your next lecture about? 
Dylan: Legal Studies. 
Emily: Well, that suggests to me that you’ll need a flowchart, since the judicial system 
has a very logical ‘do this first, do that second’ approach, which must be followed in that 
order—y’know, all the processes that happen in the courtroom, and the procedures that 
must take place to ensure complete legality. 
Dylan: Sure. That’s the way law is, very linear and orderly, but what about Culture 
Studies? That’s just a mass of comparisons of different cultures. 
Emily: Which tells you that you will need a table, where, in tabular form, you can 
efficiently write down information. 
Dylan: But often the lecture’s not that simple. The professor throws in a really complex 
mix of ideas. 
Emily: Then use a spider graph—like the web a spider makes, where there’s a central 
idea around which you attach all the associatedthoughts, and ideas, and impressions. 
Dylan: I see. I think I understand. And that would be very quick, too; very efficient. I like 
that. But what about Management Theory? How would you approach that?
Emily: The same as with Culture Studies. I’d use a network, which is basically the same 
as a spider graph, linking thoughts, although this time there are directions involved. It is 

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