DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, HYDERABAD

JUNE 2020
CBSE
Class 11 -English Writing Skills
Topic– Note-Making

Some pointers of Note- Making

Follow the following steps:
1. Read the passage carefully.
2. Try to get the theme and subject of the passage.
3. Read carefully.
4. Identify main ideas and important supporting details.
5. Make notes of the main ideas under headings and add sub-points under sub-
headings.
6. Use proper layout/format
7. Numbering should be uniform
8. Use recognisable abbreviations
Use of Abbreviations:
 You can use different ways of abbreviating words as follows:
 Capitalise initial letters, for example: U.N for United Nations
 Taking first few letters of the word, for example:
Spirit. For spiritual
Prac. For Practical
 Taking first and last letters of the words
e.g. rdng-reading
edn-education
 Adding ‘s’ to make pulrals
E.g. Bks- books
 Contractions of words
Can’t –cannot
Won’t -will not etc.
Standard Symbols - $ % & @ ! #^*( )?>

Summary:
The summary comprises key ideas and general idea of the text. In other
words, it is distillation, condensation of reduction of a larger work into primary
notions or points. It should focus on the core matter. Should be written in one
paragraph.

SAMPLE NOTE-MAKING
1. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below.

Occasional self-medication has always been part of normal living. The making and
selling of drugs has a long history and is closely linked, like medical practice itself,
with belief in magic. Only during the last hundred years or so, as the development
of scientific techniques made it possible diagnosis has become possible.
The doctor is now able to follow up the correct diagnosis of many illnesses-with
specific treatment of their causes. In many other illnesses of which the causes
remain unknown, he is still limited, like the unqualified prescriber, to the treatment
of symptoms. The doctor is trained to decide when to treat symptoms only and
when to attack the cause. This is the essential difference between medical
prescribing and self-medication.
The advance of technology has brought about much progress in some fields of
medicine, including the development of scientific drug therapy. In many
countries public health organization is improving and people’s nutritional
standards have risen. Parallel with such beneficial trends are two which have an
adverse effect. One is the use of high pressure advertising by the pharmaceutical
industry which has tended to influence both patients and doctors and has led to
the overuse of drugs generally. The other is emergence of eating, insufficient
sleep, excessive smoking and drinking. People with disorders arising from faulty
habits such as these , as well as well from unhappy human relationships , often
resort to self –medication and so add the taking of pharmaceuticals to the list
.Advertisers go to great lengths to catch this market.
Clever advertising, aimed at chronic suffers who will try anything because doctors
have not been able to cure them, can induce such faith in a preparation,
particularly if steeply priced, that it will produce-by suggestion-a very real effect in
 some people .Advertisements are also aimed at people suffering from mild
complaints such as simple cold and coughs which clear up by themselves within a
short time.
These are the main reasons, why laxatives, indigestion-
remedies, painkillers, cough-mixtures, tonics, vitamin and iron tablets, nose drops,
ointments and many other preparations are found in quantity in many households.
It is doubtful whether taking these things ever improves a person’s health, it may
even make it worse. Worse, because the preparation may contain unsuitable
ingredients; worse because the taker may become dependent on them; worse
because they might be taken excess; worse because they may cause poisoning ,
and worst of all because symptoms of some serious underlying cause may be
asked and therefore medical help may not be sought. Self-diagnosis is a greater
danger than self-medication.

Question 8M

(A) On the basis of your reading of the above passage, make notes using
proper headings and sub-headings. Also use recognizable abbreviations,
wherever necessary (Minimum five). Supply an appropriate title to
it.
(B) Write a summary of the above passage in about 80 words.

Title: Self-Medication
1. Self medictn.
1.1 part of normal living—last 100 yrs
1.2 advance in diag tech.
1.3 Drs rqd. for diag .& treatm of disease
1.4 self medictn. differs from medical prescription
2. Technological advtmnt. in medicine
2.1 drug therapy
2.2 imput. in pub. Health orgs.
 2.3 increase in nutril. standards.
3. Clever advertising by pharmal. companies
3.1 take advantage of people’s need
3.2 chronic suffers
3.3 mild complaints like cold and coughs
3.3. 1 Faulty life style
[Link] Lack of exercise, over eating, insufft. sleep etc.
[Link] stress, unhappy
4. dangers of self – medin.
4.1 Preparations contain unsuitable ingre.
4.2 Taker becomes dependent
4.3 Taker consumes medi. in excess
4.4 Preparations s may cause poisoning.
4.5 Real cause of illness gets suppressed or untreated.

ABBREVATIONS
1. medicl. –medical
2. medi- medicines
3. meictn- medication
4. dig tech-diagnosis technology
5. treat –treatment
6. dev – development
7. imput-improvement
8. pub – publics
9. rqd - required
10. orgs. -organisations
11. insufft.- insufficient
12. nutril.- nutritional
13. advtmnt - advancement
 Summary:
Self-medication is part of normal living. Medicinal experts are required for
diagnosis and treatment of disease according to symptoms and cause.
The development of drug therapy and improvement in public health organizations
and nutritional standards have helped progress in medicinal science. Excessive
advertising by pharmaceutical companies and emergence of the sedentary society
are two counter trends. Self-medication is dangerous as the preparation may be
toxic or contain unsuitable ingredients, the user becomes dependent and consumes
medicine in excess. Self-diagnosis is worse than self-medication.

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