2. Note Taking - Lasseau

Recording

• Having a little notebook to record daily, experience, notes, lectures, seminars, workshops, visiting a store, reading a book

Skills you need for recording information

observation, perception, discrimination, communication

Stereotypical Drawing

left brain- symbolizing, abstracting, rationalizing, frustrated by care observations

Representative Drawing

right brain - spatial perception, detail observation, pattern recognition

perception

• becoming more aware of info

how to record your perceptions

• written notes w arrows

• a larger scale sketch of an item

• og plan can be replaced w plan/section views

communication variables

message, receiver, media, location, time, sequence, environment, objectives

communication

• end purpose of collecting info, communicate to others

• must consider the receiver, audience, context

analysis

• the study of info previously gathered

skills used in analysis

examination, abstraction, restructuring

examination

• reexamine drawings and notes and add modications and enhancements

Abstraction

• the deliberate modification of visual notes

first type of abstraction

• select 1/ a few features for illustration by drawing an outline of a building and windows

2nd type of abstraction

• converting visual notes to less specific forms

• visual code