Students can learn to improve their note-taking skills in a workshop Wednesday.

“Take Better Notes” will begin at 5 p.m. in Room 2016 of the Ninth Street Hall.

Mark May, the assistant director of the Learning Assistance Center, will be leading the workshop, giving students key tips on taking better notes in the classroom.

Students who find themselves struggling to figure out the most effective way to take notes may benefit from this workshop, May said.

During the workshop, May mentioned that he will give helpful hints on how to listen, what to write down in students’ notebooks and what would be important to study.

May also encourages students to be a part of the workshop because “some information professors give in class is often not in the textbook.”

“Students who take poor notes suffer because they end up studying their bad notes,” he said.

May has previously taught at a two-year college for six years where he educated students how to read and write more effectively.

He has also worked at other learning centers before joining Eastern’s.

“Take Better Notes” is part of a 30-minute student workshop series and is sponsored by the Learning Assistance Center.

The workshop is free and open to the public.