In these sessions, we looked at note-taking, and paragraphs and topic sentences. You can find the lecture slides here:

Note-taking slides

Topic sentences slides plus worksheet

Note-taking is something which will feature in the future following your course, if only in meetings. I mentioned something about this, and you can further explore in this post at the ever-excellent Lifehacker:

http://lifehacker.com/167307/geek-to-live–take-great-notes

However you do it, just make sure that you write down enough information so that you can reference the source later – otherwise you could be accused of plagiarism.