In addition to Virginia's insightful comment, I received many helpful and interesting e-mail comments in response to my previous post about using computers to "transcribe" class notes.  This is the first in a series of posts that will report those comments.

Ann Enquist wrote an article, Unlocking the Secrets of Highly Successful Legal Writing Students, that studied student success in their legal writing class.  She discusses the note-taking habits of the most successful students in Section IV, B, 1. (page 19 of the copy I downloaded).  She found that the students took extensive, though not verbatim, notes.  They reviewed the notes outside of class.  See the article for further discussion of these students' note-taking habits.