Practice and repetition.
For better handwriting, there are a variety of different tips.
- Write slower
- Practice writing on templates and outlines
- Repeat
- Find a comfortable writing position (sometimes bad writing positions cause worse handwriting)
For better notes, it would really depend on how you like to write your notes.
- Highlight and annotate! This is a great thing to do as it brings out what's really important and adds more depth to the subject.
- Lots of information! Make sure to take down the information that you think is important on the screen AND what your teacher is saying! What the teacher says may not be on the slide and you may need to know it!
- Keep it organized! Possibly color coded, but generally just not bunched up and evenly spaced out so it isn't an eyesore to read back when studying!
Hope these tips help! These are what my teachers and tutors recommended to me and they helped greatly, so I hope they. help you too!