ABSTRACT
The interpreter should separate the three components [Subject Verb Object] quite clearly and allocate to each of them roughly the same position in any given section of notes. These positions will form a diagonal axis, working from left to right of a page and from top to bottom. In this chapter student interpreters start taking basic diagonal notes, separate each noted section from others on the page and separate each idea noted from others on the page. It turns the breakdown of the source text into a first attempt at note-taking. Each Subject Verb Object unit – each idea – is going to become a separate segment of our notes, and each idea will be separated from the next by a horizontal line across the page. On one page of student interpreters note-pad, they will have room for two, perhaps three ideas, which they note as the Subject, Verb and Object diagonally across the page.
