Walter Pauk was

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

's reading and study center director. He was the author of the best-selling ''How To Study In College''. Pauk has been lauded as "one of the most influential

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s in the field of developmental education and

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". He created

Cornell Notes The Cornell Notes system (also Cornell note-taking system, Cornell method, or Cornell way) is a note-taking system devised in the 1950s by Walter Pauk, an education professor at Cornell University. Pauk advocated its use in his best-selling book '' ...

. In 1997, Pauk was recognized for his work with the Pearl Anniversary Award by The College Reading and Learning Association. Pauk died on December 7, 2019.

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