A new edition of the best-selling Learn to Listen, Listen to Learn continues to prepare advanced students for the rigors of academic classwork and to offer valuable tips for getting the most from lectures. This text shows how a typical lecture is organized, using actual excerpts and transcripts from 19 authentic lectures covering a wide range of topics.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgements   UNIT 1            Pre-Coursework Evaluation                           Evaluating Listening Comprehension and Note-Taking Skills                                     Lecture 1: The Process of Lecture Comprehension                         Note-Taking Feedback Form   UNIT 2            Looking at Lecture Transcripts                                                 Comparing the Language of Lecturing to the Language of Writing                         Recognizing Cues             Recognizing Paraphrase, Repetition, Exemplification, and Tangential             Information                         Summarizing Key Differences between the Language of Lecturing and the Language of Writing                         Getting the Main Ideas Using Context and Prediction                         Predicting Content and Lecture Direction   UNIT 3            Note-taking Basics                           Noting Key Words                         Using Note-Taking Symbols and Abbreviations                         Visually Representing Relationships and the Relative Importance of Information                                     Lecture 2: Women and Work                         Eight Dos and Don’ts for Improving Lecture Comprehension and Note-Taking   UNIT 4            Noting Numbers and Statistics                           Differentiating between Numbers That Sound Similar                         Noting Years                         Noting Large Numbers in Isolation                         Noting Fraction and Decimals                         Listening to and Taking Notes on Lectures Containing Numbers and Statistics Lecture 3: American Attitudes toward Work Lecture 4: Milestones in Technology Lecture 5: Immigration to the United States   UNIT 5            Listening for Organization in Lectures                           Why Listen for Organization?                         Using Introductions to Recognize Lecture Focus and Direction                         Recognizing and Comprehending Conclusions                         Organizational Plans within Lectures                         Defining a Term                         Listing Subtopics                         Describing a Causal Relationship                         Exemplifying a Topic                         Describing a Process or Sequence of Events                         Classifying Subtopics                         Describing Characteristics                         Comparing and Contrasting                         Making a Generalization and Providing Evidence                         Tangents   UNIT 6            Lecture Comprehension and Note-Taking Practice                                     Lecture 6: How to Deal with Stress                         Lecture 7: Acid Rain                         Lecture 8: Archaeological Dating Methods                         Lecture 9: Amnesty International                         Lecture 10: Pheromones                         Lecture 11: The Near Side of the Moon                         Lecture 12: Drink Your Green Tea!                         Lecture 13: Voter Turnout in the United States                         Lecture 14: How to Look at Art                         Lecture 15: Paging Robodoc: Robots in Medicine                         Lecture 16: Earthquakes: Can They Be Predicted?                         Lecture 17: Hall’s Classification of Cultures   UNIT 7            Post-Coursework Evaluation                                                 Lecture 18: The Pyramids of Egypt: An Engineering Feat                         Lecture 19: Perfectionism   APPENDIX A             Lecture Index by Organizational Plan APPENDIX B             Lecture Index by Subject Matter APPENDIX C             Rewritten Notes for Lectures